How to Use honorable in a Sentence

honorable

adjective

• It is not honorable of you to behave like that.
• They are trying to find an honorable way out of this dispute.
• He received an honorable discharge from the army.
• The college has a long and honorable history.
• He assured her that his intentions were honorable.
• Acting for girls is for some not considered honorable work.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2024
• That is an honorable role, and she may well be vindicated in the fullness of time.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 21 May 2021
• And then he was discharged from the Army without an honorable discharge.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
• Yet data that make the profession seem less honorable are less reliable.
  — Stuart Schrader, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• Those were the good, honorable and faithful Muslims, the righteous among the nations.
  — Joseph Samuels, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Is there an honorable, non-excruciating way to go about making such a request?
  — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 27 May 2021
• Miles also was a first-team All-State pick as a junior and earned honorable-mention honors as a sophomore.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2021
• But John Hughes’s movies looked at young people’s struggles as valid and honorable and not to be dismissed by older folks.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2021
• Their return was for the traditional lap of honor after the season's final home match, but this has been a season most fans will consider far less than honorable.
  — Robert Kidd, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Below are our 10 favorite Monica episodes (and some honorable mentions).
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 31 May 2021
• The headline for this week’s results is by Jon Ketzner; Chris Doyle wrote the honorable-mentions subhead.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• Memorial Day is for both honorable remembrances and festivities that serve as the unofficial start of summer.
  — Holly Baumbach, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2021
• The honorable move at that point would have been to step down.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2022
• Now, Woods is seen as the more honorable of the two, the hero risen from the ashes of his bad decisions.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 18 May 2022
• Here are ten of my favorites for 2022, with a hearty list of honorable mentions at the end.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
• Biden is an honorable man who put the needs of the country over himself.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
• Those games are just honorable mentions, however, when stacked against the best of the best.
  — The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2022
• When the honorable certificate arrived, Nichols tore it up and threw it in a trash can.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
• The dominant narrative in the British press in the run-up to the handover in 1997 was one of an honorable retreat.
  — Louisa Lim, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• Manley served with the Marines for four years but received a less-than-honorable discharge, the judge said.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2021
• Clem, the oldest child, is an honorable son who would make any parent proud.
  — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
• The honorable Rudy Giuliani has worked 24/7 on the voter fraud issues.
  — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2022
• To achieve that, our children must be led by honorable and moral leaders.
  — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2021
• Again, Ed made a very honorable move here but honor gets you nothing in this game.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• And the more honorable its wielder is, the duller the blade becomes and the more its promise of everlasting life fades.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024