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How to use decorously in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word decorously? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
She arranged her skirts decorously and, mere seconds later, the butler entered the parlour and presented Mr Brown-Lee to the group.
In private, with his girlfriend, he behaved decorously, and kept his effusions for his dog.
Most are blackish brown with a white fringe of hair decorously surrounding the face.
The young monk folded his robe decorously around him and sedately sat on the ground.
More decorously, the Venetians carted off anything of beauty they could find.
I used to treasure official faxes, with the pompous seal of the information ministry, which told me most decorously to get stuffed.
Okbaby has created a decorously designed ultrasound aroma distributor for the whole family's health, suited to match any furnishings.
A canvas portrait of a woman with a Medusa-like thicket of hair shows a spray-paint can tucked decorously in her locks.
In a perfect world, this is done as decorously and privately as possible.
One of them is a fusspot bourgeoise who hides her bleeper in her handkerchief and decorously blows her nose while sending a signal.
She knows that if she's patient, its gaze will break,demurely, decorously, like a well-taught child's, it will turn from her as though it were embarrassed by the secrets of this awful hide-and seek.
As the poet decorously shows his desire to consummate the marriage, he retains the fescennine element without being crude.
In the film, Temple dances a lot, but keeps her skirt decorously in place.
Examples from Classical Literature
What there is no question about is, that our garden-party was decorously merry.
If you must air your grievances, surely you may do it quietly and decorously.
The bears themselves perform their parts most decorously, without any horseplay or clowning.
There was a moment of profound silence during which a bow-legged seaman, stepping aside, expectorated decorously into the scupper.
Everything went off simply, decorously, and without any affectation on his part.
They received him most decorously, for the Lone Wolf made a speech that opened their eyes.
I dashed the tears of laughter from my eyes, and strove to face him decorously.
The Street came decorously, albeit with a degree of uncertainty as to supper.
Either the clean and decorously clad man, or the dirty and indecorously clad man.
Astley, as usual, remained in the background, and gazed calmly and decorously at the scene.
Do you attend Church, do you come and decorously submit to a service?
He was entering it decorously, though not without some speed.
Even if Cupid appeared, he was decorously framed or pedestaled.
But there was the decorously grave, though unmoved physician, seeking only to mitigate the last pangs of the patient whom he could not save.
Everything was done most decorously, to the considerable surprise of the intruders.
She was a sprightly young woman, very smart and merry and decorously voluptuous, and of that fascinating prettiness that wins the hearts of boys and storms the footlights.
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