How to Use deportment in a Sentence

deportment

noun
  • The new students were instructed in proper dress and deportment.
  • His stiff deportment matched his strict demeanor.
  • At a time of bombast and insults, his deportment has been invariably civil and courtly.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 Oct. 2022
  • There were no deportment classes, no one telling me to stand, as my mother’s generation did, with my shoulders back and chest out.
    — Thessaly La Force, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Something in their door-to-door deportment, their earnestness and brio, seemed a soft rebuke to my own disenchantment.
    — Andrew Kay, Longreads, 17 July 2021
  • Flame Show Bar, Gordy had his performers tutored in deportment.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Companies often want employees not only to be tall but also to have a fair complexion and good deportment.
    — Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2015
  • Diana, meanwhile, is left alone and bored in Buckingham Palace, where she’s meant to learn the rules of court etiquette and deportment.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • And then there was Monty Not that the internationals hold a patent on pleasant deportment.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In tweets, speeches and deportment, the president has made his personality a central issue in this campaign.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
  • But Lehman Brothers, founded in 1850, is gone, along with so many rules of personal deportment that go back just as far.
    — James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Gastronomy is about the totality of the experience, from the food and wine to the decor and the service — all the way to the dress and deportment of fellow diners.
    — Alan Behr, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • And for business leaders, tasked with leading people through tough times, Zalenskyy's deportment offers lessons that are transferable even when the stakes aren't as high.
    — Aman Kidwai, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Bob also was a dedicated history teacher, and with an eagle eye for deportment violations within the student body — even if they were spotted on the short walk home.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The Taliban show no sign of easing a crackdown not only on such basic rights as education and jobs for women, but on every facet of public life, from deportment to travel.
    — David Zucchino, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • More on the deportment of the Americans and British in a bit, but for now how could American and British leaders have been so easily duped?
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • That offhand remark prompted a deeper review of Esquith’s deportment with students and his management of a nonprofit and student field trips.
    — Howard Blume, latimes.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The manual outlines proper dress, grooming, behavior and deportment for a waitress, and the expectation that all of her customers will be men, who will expect quiet obedience.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • But where Navalny’s public presentation is cocky, droll, and irreverent, Sobol has the deportment of a straight-A student, a tireless nerd.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • Rubinstein opened salons around the world to sell her products and the lifestyle associated with them, offering everything from skin analysis to deportment classes.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Sure, that’s what America is craving, lessons in morality and social deportment from some of the most privileged, narcissistic people in the entire country.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • But on the first night of a three-day visit to Southern California, the focus shifted to Williams’ personality, deportment and wiring.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024
  • Zakiullah Storay, head of the health deportment in the province, said the facility was important, with 20 beds for people living in the rural area.
    — Fox News, 14 June 2018
  • She was bought from an orphanage at age 4 by a goldsmith and his wife, raised as a kind of pet with lessons in singing and dancing and deportment, and given charge of their second child, a daughter with multiple physical and mental challenges.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Inman’s was the first driving licence in Atlanta—1930s records warbling away, and the cook’s handwritten memos to self (correct deportment at the dinner table as well as menus) scattered around her kitchen.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
  • To play Midge, Brosnahan consulted a stack of vintage Good Housekeeping magazines, clipping articles about wifely deportment.
    — Alexis Soloski, idahostatesman, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Membership is determined by a student’s scholastic achievement, attendance, deportment, participation in career-technical student organizations and teacher recommendations.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022

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