Law professors and pundits make a respectable living out of doing this.

Ultimately, she is able to earn a respectable living as a typewriter.

Nor from making a respectable living at it.

For 40 years, Bert Perlman had been making a respectable living in dolls.

Still, he managed to earn a respectable living from the game.

Uncle Jim made a respectable living, he supposed.

Leary was a first-rate speaker who made a respectable living in the 80's on the college lecture circuit.

Instead he qualified as a physiotherapist and opened a private practice that eventually earned him a respectable living.

We should be able to make a respectable living.

He began carving full-time and earned a respectable living through the 1930s.