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Example sentences for "fair"

Lexicographically close words:
fainting; faintings; faintly; faintness; faints; faire; fairely; fairer; faires; fairest
  1. But after reaching “the Springs” we concluded to give them a fair trial before proceeding further, as we understood from friends, who had tested these waters, that they often proved as beneficial in winter as in summer.

  2. As the fair marquise moved on, I could only stammer forth my gratitude.

  3. If it was fair to rate her as a rather exceptionally clever and daring young navigator on the sea of fact it was only fair to acknowledge her equally clever, equally daring in the realms of fancy.

  4. Much more sympathetic are the few pages which Berenson devotes to it in an article in the Andover Review;[7] though abounding in errors, it is fair and unbiassed, and at least displays a familiarity with the originals.

  5. The legislators made the effects of the maltreatment of previous lawgivers the pretext for greater oppression until the Jews bade fair to lose the last semblance of human beings.

  6. He can hardly be properly appreciated even by those who enjoy the advantages of a fair school education, not to speak of those who are merely lettered.

  7. Among the few memorable exceptions among German scholars are Güdemann and Strack, who approach Judeo-German in a fair and scholarly manner.

  8. He has been a merchant and an author, has vaulted over from a pure realism to the illusive dream of Zionism, and bids fair to follow new ideals should such present themselves to him.

  9. From these facts it is probably fair to assume that most, if not all, of his other poems are borrowings from other literatures, preëminently German.

  10. My fair sir, you flatter me," cried the mayor.

  11. Would ye see a fair lady and two gallant knights done foully to death?

  12. And there was Gertrude Le Boeuf, as fair a maiden as eye could see, but as bad and bitter as the rest of them.

  13. Yes, fair son, but not so far as to bar you from the garb you now wear or the life which you must now lead.

  14. The words came out in broken, strenuous speech, while the lady's fair face was writhed and drawn like that of one who looks upon a horror which strikes, the words from her lips.

  15. I pray you then my fair dove, that you will vouchsafe to me one of those doeskin gloves, that I may wear it as the badge of her whose servant I shall ever be.

  16. Shoot straight for the mark, lad, and fair play for all.

  17. For with us in France it has ever been fair and honest war--a shut fist for the man, but a bended knee for the woman.

  18. Herewith, my fair lady, I send my humble regards, entreating you that you will give the same to your daughter, the Lady Maude.

  19. So, my fair sirs, and I shall see that you are shortly admitted.

  20. He had cleverly switched the appeal from grounds on which he stood no chance whatever to those where he did not fear any intellect in a fair fight.

  21. And now, fair lady, will you honor me by joining the humblest of your admirers in a sip of port.

  22. Hence it is hardly fair to appeal to him in favour of their abrogation, and any such appeal would only serve to emphasise his self-contradiction.

  23. She had fair floating hair, which the breeze blew into her eyes; and between the cloud of hair, and the mist of tears, she could not see her work very clearly.

  24. I need hardly say that the toy booth in a village fair tries me very hard.

  25. Dot, who was working at a doll's night-dress that had for long been partly finished, and now seemed in a fair way to completion.

  26. I thought the best thing I could do was to get out of the fair at once, so I went up the village and struck off across some fields into a little wood that lay near.

  27. I have done a fair amount of sight-seeing these days, and yesterday he paid a long visit to Cardinal Nina--Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Vatican.

  28. Elsa, a very stout Italian woman of mature years, did not give one just the idea of the fair patrician maiden one imagines her to be.

  29. They made a very pretty contrast--Rosa von Sternberg is fair and slight, a pretty, graceful figure.

  30. We went again to the Piazzo Castello which is so large that it is a very fair walk to go all around the square--and went into the hall to see the statue (equestrian of course) of Victor Amadeus the First.

  31. The "light lady" next door is standing at her door in her riding habit, the skirt already very short and held well up over her arm displaying a fair amount of trousers and high boots.

  32. We made a fair stop at the Bologna station and had a very good breakfast.

  33. One gets a very fair walk on the Palatine Hill.

  34. She looked so handsome--the black is very becoming and threw out well her fair hair and skin.

  35. With a fair wind we ought to go over in two hours.

  36. He wanted to send us tea or coffee--but we really couldn't take anything as it wasn't more than two hours since we had had a very fair little gouter at Novara.

  37. This, at first sight, seems fair enough; for I may be asked if I would not help a man by the roadside to get his cart out of the ditch.

  38. And what in my Beloved so passing fair I see.

  39. A goodly road for simple needs, An avenue to praise and paint, Kept by fair use from wreck and weeds, Blessed by the shrine of its own saint.

  40. III Hearken, the feet of the Destroyer tread The wine-press of the nations; fast the blood Pours from the side of Europe; in the flood On the septentrional watershed The rivers of fair France are running red!

  41. It was April fair on the Flanders Fields, But the dreadest April then That ever the years, in their fateful flight, Had brought to this world of men.

  42. T was all so fair awhile; But she was fairest--this great square-rigged ship That had blown in from some far happy isle On from the shores of the Hesperides.

  43. He learned to know them, in fair weather and in foul, for the splendid fellows they are; and in the intensely proud depths of his own inner consciousness to regard them as the finest platoon in the New Army.

  44. The first of these homely epistles shows their writer arriving with his Battalion in France; and the visit is evidently his first to that fair land, since he writes: "I wonder if I should ever have seen it had there been no war!

  45. It was fair to assume the Boche sniper who fired that shot would be facing our trenches; the same direction in which we were facing at that moment, since we were working back from the German wire towards our own.

  46. And if you indicated nothing, of their own choice they'd always play roughly fair and avoid the dirty trick by instinct.

  47. Although a fair supply of diamonds was found near the surface, these diggings seemed to give out as they reached hard limestone.

  48. These mines of the Nevada deserts excel in the richness and abundance of their ores, while in the future these camps bid fair to outrival in development all other sections of the United States.

  49. But another industry is growing and bids fair to become more profitable than either mining or cattle-growing.

  50. Since American occupation the caçao tree has been cultivated, and cocoa bids fair to be the chief export in the near future.

  51. As islands go, Guam is of fair size, about thirty miles long and from three to ten miles in width.

  52. You put the matter very plainly," he said, "and what you say is fair enough.

  53. Will the fair Millicent condescend, or shall I ring?

  54. Standing by his side, with her head suspiciously near his shoulder, was a very fair girl, with nice figure and complexion and large blue eyes.

  55. Hilliers told me that he'd heard of some very fair sport round by Rushey Ponds last week.

  56. Only, in case I do peg out, it seems fair to tell you beforehand about a slight alteration I have seen fit to make in my will.

  57. I did, sir, and I was fair paralysed with what she told me.

  58. It fair frightens me to see him looking as he does and taking no care of himself.

  59. The man was a blond, pink-skinned Frenchman with half his face hidden by a curly fair beard.

  60. She was reminded of what the spinster from Chester had said about the fair Thérèse being "like something on the films.

  61. It's the fair return that he gets for the risk he's run in starting his business, and it's his reward for his years of saving up his money till he had enough to start that business.

  62. In view of the favors that you have done me in the past, I think it fair to tell you, for your own use only, that my friends have decided that they and I ought to do what you thought they might decide, viz.

  63. To persons having a fair knowledge of current finance, it was known that the M.

  64. See a Voyage to the North of Europe in 1653.

  65. There, VENUS, rising, shrinks with sweet surprize, As her fair self reflected seems to rise!

  66. Fair was her form--but who can hope to trace The pensive softness of her angel-face?

  67. One fair asylum from the world he knew, One chosen seat, that charms with various view!

  68. Milton's On the Death of a Fair Infant, The Passion, and the introduction to On the Morning of Christ's Nativity).

  69. And all we met was fair and good, And all was good that Time could bring, And all the secret of the Spring Moved in the chambers of the blood.

  70. Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?

  71. In some forms of delirium tremens, the intensity of the fear is a fair criterion of the degree of the poisoning.

  72. It would therefore seem fair to state that the man who does not use tobacco is less susceptible to disease and contagion, and recovers more quickly from a serious illness or operation.

  73. The question is, Are they getting a fair chance from society--society whose experience has demonstrated that it must in some way protect itself from them?

  74. Society owes every alcoholic a fair opportunity to reform; it may be questioned if it owes him repeated opportunities.

  75. It is perhaps not going too far to say that most alcoholics have not been given a fair chance by their bodies, their temperaments, or the actual conditions of their lives.

  76. He had descried a fair plateau on the opposite side of the Owl River as he came down the hill, and his mind was fixed upon this land.

  77. It is not fair to doubt the word of a fellow-hunter.

  78. Get your rifle, Jake, and we'll teach whoever or whatever it may be that we are able to take care of our stock in night and storm as well as in fair weather!

  79. The others laughed heartily, but Katola said: "Ugh, you were not fair with him, for you invited him to a feast and then gave him such a fright that he would always hate and fear his brother man.

  80. He had fair success in this, and had made himself somewhat comfortable when the blizzard set in.

  81. Thus the rules which should govern the character of the hunt were all determined upon in advance, and the natural rivalry between the hunters was to be displayed in a fair and open trial of skill and endurance.

  82. Immediately as if by magic his face was transfigured by the animated satisfaction of the conqueror, and instinctively his hand wandered to the ends of his fair moustache, to which he added an eloquent upward twirl.

  83. In her white gown, under her tangled fair hair, she had a ghastly look like one just awakened from a fearful dream.

  84. I give you fair warning that if you repeat that for the third time, I shall believe it," she retorted coolly.

  85. I've always considered it a pretty fair likeness," he remarked.

  86. Then she watched the animation move feebly in his face, while he pulled at his short fair moustache with a characteristic masculine gesture.

  87. To be sure there were charitable ones among them, he supposed, but he had always tended by a kind of natural selection toward the conspicuously fair, and the conspicuously fair had proved invariably to be the secretly selfish as well.

  88. How am I sure that you prefer fair women--and adore an ample beauty?

  89. Perry shook his head as he tugged nervously at his fair moustache.

  90. There was three days' fair work left in it when I got there in the morning.

  91. Mrs. Perkins nodded approvingly, and her husband said: 'That's a very fair offer.

  92. I was light-handed, and a fair milker, I believe.

  93. And seeing this it was, I believe, which first weakened my devotion to the fair Miss Armstrong, by turning my attention to Nelly Fane.

  94. Upon that I had relinquished her attention with a fair grace.

  95. Miss Armstrong had a great deal of shining fair hair, a good figure, and pleasing dark blue eyes.

  96. I know it seemed absurdly curmudgeonly that I should think of wading through the document, and while Sylvanus's own fair hand held a pen waiting for me, too.

  97. I thought, too, of merely disappearing, and leaving conscience to make martyrdom of my fair lady's life.

  98. With its Roman gates, still spanning the fair street, and casting, on the sunlight of to-day, the shade of fifteen hundred years ago.

  99. But if the fair sex in Lugano are diligent in frequenting the churches, they by no means scorn the cafés.

  100. The bluffs are quite precipitous, and on their shelving sides a number of squatters have settled, with their nondescript cabins and huts, giving a sort of rag-fair look to the general aspect of the town as seen as a whole.

  101. In such a quiet interval, one of our fair sleepers inspired the following lines, as she lay at rest, on the couch in the dining-room.

  102. Yet this sentiment is a fair specimen of the stern stuff of which Mr. St. John's creeds and opinions are made up.


  103. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acceptable; accommodating; adequate; admissible; advantageous; affable; agreeable; alright; amiable; amicable; appropriate; apt; attentive; attraction; attractive; auspicious; average; balanced; balmy; banquet; bazaar; beauteous; beautiful; becoming; beneficial; benevolent; benign; blameless; bleached; blissful; blowout; bonny; booming; braw; bright; built; buxom; candid; capital; carnival; cheerful; cheerfully; cheery; civil; clean; clear; cogent; comely; commendable; compatible; complaisant; condign; congenial; conscientious; considerable; considerate; cordial; courteous; cream; creamy; creditable; dainty; decent; defensible; deferential; delightful; deserved; desirable; detached; disinterested; dispassionate; dispassionately; due; dulcet; dull; duly; eggshell; elegant; emporium; enjoyable; equal; equally; equitable; erect; estimable; ethical; even; evenly; excellent; exhibit; exhibition; expedient; exposition; exuberant; fair; fairly; famous; fastidious; fat; favorable; favoring; feast; felicitous; festival; festivity; fete; fiesta; fine; fit; flourishing; flowering; foreseeable; fortunate; frank; fresh; gala; generous; genial; glaucous; golden; good; goodly; graceful; gracious; graciously; grand; grateful; gratifying; halcyon; handsome; happy; harmonious; healthy; helpful; holiday; honest; honeyed; honorable; hopeful; immaculate; impartial; impersonal; indifferent; inferior; ingenuous; insipid; intermediate; inviolate; irreproachable; ivory; jamboree; judicial; judicious; just; justifiable; justified; justly; kind; kindly; kosher; lackluster; laudable; lawful; legal; legitimate; level; liable; liberal; light; likable; likely; lovely; lucky; manly; market; marketplace; mart; mean; medial; mediocre; medium; meet; mellifluous; mellow; merited; middling; mild; minor; moderate; modest; moral; neutral; nice; noble; objective; obliging; open; ordinary; pale; palmy; party; passable; pastel; pearl; pearly; personable; picnic; piping; plaza; pleasant; pleasantly; pleasing; pleasurable; pneumatic; polite; predictable; presentable; presumable; presumptive; pretty; principled; probable; profitable; promising; proper; properly; propitious; prosperous; pukka; pure; readable; reasonable; regal; reputable; respectable; respectful; rewarding; right; righteous; rightful; rightfully; rightly; rosy; royal; satisfactory; satisfying; shapely; shiny; show; sightly; skillful; sleek; slender; solicitous; sound; splendid; spotless; square; stacked; stainless; staple; statuesque; sterling; straight; stunning; sufficient; sunny; sweet; tactful; tedious; thoughtful; thriving; tidy; tolerable; tolerant; unadulterated; unbiased; unblemished; uncorrupted; undefiled; unexceptionable; unimpeachable; uninfluenced; unobjectionable; unpolluted; unprejudiced; unsoiled; unspotted; unstained; unsullied; untainted; untarnished; upright; upstanding; urbane; useful; valid; vapid; vigorous; virtuous; warrantable; warranted; welcome; white; willing; workmanlike; thriving; tidy; tolerable; tolerant; unadulterated; unbiased; unblemished; uncorrupted; undefiled; unexceptionable; unimpeachable; uninfluenced; unobjectionable; unpolluted; unprejudiced; unsoiled; unspotted; unstained; unsullied; untainted; untarnished; upright; upstanding; urbane; useful; valid; vapid; vigorous; virtuous; warrantable; warranted; welcome; white; willing; workmanlike


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fair amount; fair and; fair castle; fair child; fair companion; fair girl; fair lady; fair lords; fair means; fair opportunity; fair play; fair return; fair size; fair water; fair weather; fair women; fair young; faire water; fairly good; fairly high; fairly long; fairy godmother; fairy stories; fairy story; fairy tale; fairy tales