Wondering how to use Respect in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as regard or esteem.
Respect in a sentence
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Respect meaning
- An attitude of consideration or high regard.
- Good opinion, honor, or admiration.
- Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
Synonyms of Respect
Using Respect
- The main meaning on this page is: An attitude of consideration or high regard. | Good opinion, honor, or admiration. | Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
- Useful related words include: regard, esteem, disrespect, deference.
- In the example corpus, respect often appears in combinations such as: respect to, with respect, respect for.
Context around Respect
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 13 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Respect
- In this selection, "respect" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gotta, must, begets, ourselves, people and begets stand out and add context to how "respect" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include action in respect of data, action in respect of the and mutual respect. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "respect" sits close to words such as appearance, sides and train, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with respect
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They just need knowledgeable respect, coupled with respect for others. (10 words)
This is democracy, we respect it, we must respect this country Nigeria and respect ourselves. (15 words)
Respect begets respect but Senate has no modicum of respect for other arms of government. (15 words)
If you are hosting, you likely want your guests to respect your home, and if you are visiting treat their home the way you would It is hard work cleaning the house and preparing for family and friends least you can do is respect their home. (46 words)
Mr Pugh has said Mr Gant’s refusal to apologise shows a “lack of respect for ordinary citizens in the eyes of this local government” and he accused the cabinet member of “hiding behind his political privilege with no respect for the truth”. (43 words)
A week later, the SIO emailed the gold commander to say he had been instructed to “take no action in respect of data recovery from ITS1″ and “take no action in respect of the deletion of data from the ITS1 server”. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
This is democracy, we respect it, we must respect this country Nigeria and respect ourselves.
You’ve gotta respect that and respect people, and when you’re in each other’s space, you’ve gotta respect each other.
Nelson Mandela would have been very pleased to see that in starting our things on time, we respect each other, we respect our movement, we respect our people.
Respect begets respect but Senate has no modicum of respect for other arms of government.
A week later, the SIO emailed the gold commander to say he had been instructed to “take no action in respect of data recovery from ITS1″ and “take no action in respect of the deletion of data from the ITS1 server”.
If we treat police officers as human beings worthy of respect, perhaps we will get respect from them in return.
I really respect her as an artiste and I respect her mind and how she thinks.
I think you have got to respect the opponent, and we do respect the opponents, whoever they are.
It took far too long, but horror finally got the respect it so sorely deserved from Hollywood and moviegoers alike, even if that respect was, in some ways, fleeting.
Mr Pugh has said Mr Gant’s refusal to apologise shows a “lack of respect for ordinary citizens in the eyes of this local government” and he accused the cabinet member of “hiding behind his political privilege with no respect for the truth”.
Our mutual respect for a wide spectrum of ideas and opinions generated a rich friendship and an abiding respect for one another’s often differing opinions.
They just need knowledgeable respect, coupled with respect for others.
We already know that Trump has no respect for our democracy, no respect for the Constitution, that he would trash it at his next opportunity, and that next opportunity may come a year from now, in November 2024.
We called them in and I told them to not cheat the game, but respect the game and respect your contract,” said Hunt.
We should not be proud of the respect others show us; we should be proud of our understanding of the basis and importance of showing respect to others.
A man learns to give respect to all women when he first learns to love and respect his mother.
Even worse, most of these super-geniuses don't respect Parker's intelligence (mostly because they don't respect Spider-Man's education from Empire State University).
If you are hosting, you likely want your guests to respect your home, and if you are visiting treat their home the way you would It is hard work cleaning the house and preparing for family and friends least you can do is respect their home.
I still respect everybody on both sides and respect the game of golf above all.
Make no mistake: whatever they say to virtue signal their compassion towards the indigenous, they respect them about as much as I respect Joe Biden’s intellect and integrity.
Phrases with respect
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with respect
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- respect to 57×
- with respect 56×
- respect for 48×
- respect the 30×
- respect of 28×
- in respect 26×
- and respect 23×
- to respect 22×
- of respect 15×
- respect and 11×