Use "presentable" in a sentence

1. With that she manhandled Johnny upstairs to one of the more presentable

---

2. I washed dutifully because I wanted always to be presentable

---

3. children had to be presentable

---

4. “Mabel had just gone when this lad came up he seemed quite presentable and was in uniform he asked me if I had just seen someone off

---

5. I went upstairs to insure that I looked presentable

---

6. I wandered into the bathroom, spent some time trying to make myself presentable, then ran back to my newly

---

7. carrying my plastic trash bag full of clothes with me, but otherwise I looked presentable

---

8. I went to the bathroom, made myself as presentable as I could and

---

9. I stood up, brushed myself off and tried to look presentable

---

10. (Of course, the latter is arguably a sign of a decaying culture that has lost all sense of proportion) Dress, whether pricey or modest or falling somewhere in between, was always presentable and neat

11. The working classes, including the poor, took pride in parading in their ―Sunday Best‖ and made sure that the clothes their children wore to school, however worn or frayed, were clean and properly ironed; that is to say, presentable

---

12. I suppose it never occurred to Theodore that we were less than presentable, but when, just as I expected, Khan George arrived to lead us all in triumph, he was appalled at our disarray

---

13. My clothes were too big for him, of course, but he was still much more presentable when he returned

---

14. She washed and dressed quickly, choosing the cleanest and most presentable of her

---

15. “He is simply more in need of a barber than anyone else I have ever seen! Nemia has agreed to perform that service for him, which I am sure will leave him in a far more presentable state

---

16. ” Torin leaves for his apartment where he frantically searches for a presentable outfit other than the normal jeans and timberlands he always wears

---

17. All of this was a heavy drain on the bottom line, but the plant was slowly becoming more presentable, even if most of the upgrading was cosmetic

---

18. Whereas Hilsith cast a preservation spell on Dalia and Bezedil about three minutes after they fell, and then reset their bones and tissues so that they’d be presentable in open caskets

---

19. "In truth, Sir, I have a jumble of ideas that are not fully thought out much less in a presentable form

---

20. over-reacting, but she was the first presentable woman he had met

21. Dominic stood up, put his suit on, and ran his hands through his hair as he looked in the mirror, making sure he looked presentable

---

22. I knew it wasn’t going to be the Old Vic or Stratford on Avon; but had hoped it would at least be a presentable little touring company

---

23. Natural shoulder-length dark blond hair and a minimum of makeup turned him into a presentable, if not beautiful young woman

---

24. Making ourselves as presentable as possible and gluing radiant smiles to our washed but unshaven faces, we walked north

---

25. authority of this backwater junk heap and it‘s up to us to make them look presentable

---

26. At least his long coat is warm and presentable

---

27. If he heard of such a case he‘d rescue him, have him repaired and checked for bugs and diseases, bring him to Desolé‘s to recover his sanity and looks, then when he was presentable and stopped bursting into tears every five minutes, he‘d find work for him

---

28. of furniture, some of it quite presentable, and the house is a little cluttered

---

29. For reasons unknown to him his feet turned to jelly and he found himself suddenly fixing his hair in the mirror and wondering if the clothes he was wearing were presentable

---

30. They had forgotten how to keep themselves presentable, had lost all the will to button up their stained jackets and clean their dusty shoes

31. Mary hoped that Lazarus was to be raised from the dead, but Martha, while to some extent sharing her sister's faith, was more exercised by the fear that Lazarus would not be presentable, in his appearance, to Jesus, the apostles, and their friends

---

32. Finally, when my grandfather pronounced me fit and presentable, I was herded into the cage he called a ‘lift’ and it descended by means of a chain and windlass that raised and lowered it

---

33. Women see nice guys as someone who has a stable background, desirable, presentable, trustworthy, helpful, discreet, and friendly

---

34. To write in that manner, your resume style should send out a message that you are reliable, presentable, and of course, professional

---

35. He had been woken from a fitful sleep at five o’clock and ordered to clean himself up and make himself presentable

---

36. He dabbed some of Musafir's, “scent of seduction” aftershave, Applied some gel to his floppy hair and combed it back, he wanted to look presentable, yet cool

---

37. He is wearing cheap clothes with a few coffee stains on one of the sleeves, but overall seems quite presentable

---

38. “Yesterday I had a meeting with the head honchos so I had to be presentable

---

39. She left him in the room, but she succeeded in getting them to leave the padlock off, clean it every day, throw the chamberpots away except for one, and to keep José Arcadio Segundo as clean and presentable as his great--grandfather had been during his long captivity under the chestnut tree

---

40. I'm pretty sure that handbag of hers is a miniature pharmacy with all kinds of tricks to get some drunk or frazzled starlet presentable after a hissy fit

41. “With a month away he would have left the place a bit more presentable

---

42. Out of uniform and into more feminine attire Clegg’s nurse looked more than presentable to the opposite sex

---

43. presentable), threw some sustenance in the passenger seat, and headed south

---

44. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the

---

45. I shouldn’t say this, but she got all giddy and started to do her hair and make-up asking me all the time if she looked pretty and presentable

---

46. Just give the nurses a few minutes to make him a bit more presentable

---

47. They wouldn’t be presentable to Jade, either

---

48. A handsome presentable young man who was carrying a coffin and a maiden

---

49. There is a piece of divinity in all of us for creating a revised picture presentable, to a person having pride so he can start a fresh life

---

50. In a few deft movements she had rearranged the string into a presentable form

51. “You’ll have to wear something more presentable than that,” he said, gesturing to Aesa’s customary loose shirt and breeches

---

52. They decided to sell the house but buyers were hesitant to inspect the house because it was not presentable and becoming dilapidated

---

53. You and not-You – the other you that is experiencing you as you, but not with you – is not an integrated |You| nor intragratable as a presentable ~You

---

54. words making the loft presentable again

---

55. Within minutes, they were as presentable as when he first walked in the door

---

56. She quickly tried to arrange her disheveled clothing to be more presentable, and lifted her hands to smooth her hair

---

57. After a quick two-hour nap, three pots of coffee, a cold shower, a shave and a haircut–administered by the preacher’s wife–and a borrowed suit, the former gambler was once more presentable

---

58. I was neat, presentable, boring

---

59. Like the others, he was shabbily dressed and smoothed the few long straggly hairs that were still on his bald head--maybe trying to look more presentable

---

60. It would seem that she wore a wig in summer to look presentable at work and of course had to wear it the rest of the year or many questions would be asked about her hair growing back in at those times

61. For some reason, he felt compelled to look as presentable as possible when dealing with criminals, even though he still loathed the idea of meeting with Oln

---

62. The woman in the laundrette agreed to do his ironing for a small extra fee so, within a few hours, Daniel felt more presentable

---

63. A goldsmith makes gold presentable; the raw divine potential in you can be beautified through practice and it can be polished in discipline

---

64. He was about our age, reasonably presentable and was known as „rich Hiram" because he drove an E-type Jaguar which was the sports car of rich movie actors and playboys

---

65. “I have adhered to your diet fanatically, not for my health but in the hope that if I became presentable enough, that wedding ring would disappear from your finger

---

66. The wide well kept streets with the green lawns and presentable houses were the remnants of the luxury provided by the old International Suez Canal Company to its foreign employees

---

67. She was not the last word in coquetry but she was a presentable young lady

---

68. “I’m not very presentable

---

69. I did my braids again to look as presentable as possible

---

70. I have to try and look presentable

71. When I could think coherently again, I looked around the room from where I sat trying to make my shirt presentable

---

72. When I came back down again, definitely more presentable, having showered and changed, Gareth was just coming through the French doors

---

73. Your appearance is considered to reflect on your inward character, so try to look good and presentable

---

74. I saw he meant to give her his company; and I guessed, by his way, he wanted to be presentable; so, laughing, as I durst not laugh when the master is by, I offered to help him, if he would, and joked at his confusion

---

75. In short, you will find your father a very presentable person, I assure you

---

76. A gift to his guest of one of the four lady's handkerchiefs, if and when ascertained to be in a presentable condition

---

77. When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies

---

78. Randy Fanning had been out of jail for three days and was only slightly more presentable absent the orange county jumpsuit

---

79. She showered, took some clothes out of her rucksack and ran an iron over them in the hope that she looked a little more presentable

---

80. Besides this preliminary outlay, he must be prepared to keep himself for some years, and to hire a presentable carriage and horse

81. One of these was a sturdy middle-aged man—whose long white "pinner" was somewhat finer and cleaner than the wraps of the others, and whose jacket underneath had a presentable marketing aspect—the master-dairyman, of whom she was in quest, his double character as a working milker and butter maker here during six days, and on the seventh as a man in shining broad-cloth in his family pew at church, being so marked as to have inspired a rhyme:

---

82. He’d never been an early riser, whereas on work days Mercer had to be presentable and reasonably conscious by seven a

---

83. Or so went the gossip at the restaurant they’d rented in Central Park, at which William would show up presentable, fine, but substantially less than sober, the flask nestled in his pocket

---

84. When my face was presentable, I said to my partner, “OK

---

85. I did the bare minimum of presentable maintenance: concealer, eyeliner, hair pulled back into a tight ponytail

---

86. He felt that he no longer looked presentable, and feared that if he were now to approach the gentlemen-inwaiting in that plight he would not be admitted to the Emperor

---

87. 'Yes; a little more orderly and presentable, but just about the same — '

---

88. ‘A little more orderly and presentable, but just about the same…’

---

89. "A little more orderly and presentable, but just about the same

---