The students were meant to be young gentlemen, that is, from respectable and important families.

Home ownership is considered the mark of a "respectable" family.

This made them feel that her works were safe for respectable Victorian families to read.

He came from a respectable family who attempted to give him a college education.

Once upon a time there were two sisters from a respectable white family.

Mother was of a poor class but a respectable family in Plymouth.

As a result the street acquired a bad reputation and respectable families moved out.

He made new friends, not street thugs but kids from respectable families.

We were a very respectable family and I was the second child.

The first of his respectable rural family to sit in the Senate.