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Example sentences for "fair start"

  • Thinks I, she wants to make herself look decent like afore I get in, she don't like to pull her stockings on afore me; so I pulls up the old horse and let her have a fair start.

  • It's in politics as in racin', everything depends upon a fair start.

  • Its in politics as in racin, every thing depends upon a fair start.

  • Economic conditions were such that, given a fair start, they could scarcely avoid reaching a desirable goal.

  • The Whigs made a fair start, but unfortunately they ran a poor race and came to a bad end.

  • The men were anxious for the change, but they were misled and influenced, and we could not get a fair start.

  • My own conviction is, that if a ready-money system was once in operation, and had a fair start, it would work better than the present system.

  • Let us make a fair start," he said, as he took his seat.

  • Now that he had what he was pleased to call 'a fair start,' his ambition was boundless.

  • It placed a little capital at his disposal, and capital is the one thing needed to make a fair start in anything in this country.

  • Give me that, and I'll make a fair start, and go ahead right enough.

  • Given a fair start, compelled from the outset to work for his living, young Marston might have settled down into a respectable citizen.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fair start" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    drew nearer; fair amount; fair breeze; fair brother; fair child; fair copy; fair cousin; fair knight; fair maid; fair nephew; fair price; fair princess; fair readers; fair return; fair sister; fair sweet; fair trial; fair water; fair youth; fairly good; fairy story; good humour; good length; social control; supernatural being; the princes