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Example sentences for "fairly good"

  • As to the Lake Ile à la Crosse country, he considered it fairly good.

  • On the south side of Paint lake there is a fairly good bunch of spruce, suitable for railway ties or pulpwood.

  • ALONG GOOSE RIVER, BELOW THE LAKE, there is quite a tract of fairly good land, and there is another on the Sturgeon, between the mouth of Goose river and Cumberland lake.

  • I have no doubt that it is a fairly good food.

  • Sodium salicylate with acetanilid makes a fairly good combination in certain rheumatic troubles, but it is not indicated by any means as a cure-all, as one would judge from the literature sent out by the Sal-Codeia-Bell people.

  • In the first case, when light is fairly good, the ordinary speed plate will be found amply quick enough during the daytime, and fifty per cent cheaper in price.

  • Almost any kind of paper will be found workable, if it be of fairly good quality.

  • It is ninety feet high, and in a fairly good state of preservation.

  • It is eighty feet in height, and in fairly good preservation, but it wants the top.

  • The grass that grows on them must be of a fairly good quality, for they let at from L5 to L6 per Irish acre, the purchaser having to save the hay, and run all the risk attending the making it in land so liable to be flooded.

  • It is a curious spot; Chaumont, on the banks of the Loire, gives a fairly good idea of it.

  • Talleyrand in fairly good health, but much disturbed by the state of affairs.

  • Porpoise beef is, when decently cooked, fairly good eating to a landsman; judge, then, what it must have been to us.

  • The clothes were certainly of fairly good quality, if the price was high, and exactly suited to our requirements.

  • For he who can fish cleverly and luckily may be sure of fairly good times in a whaler, although he may be no great things at any other work.

  • Its range covers several thousand square miles, and the stand is fairly good on much of it.

  • The seedling trees suffer much from fire, but their power of resistance is fairly good, and dense new growth is coming on in many localities.

  • There are many poor flats and sterile ridges in the chestnut oak's range, and they will produce timber of fairly good kind, if the chestnut oaks are permitted to have them.

  • One of the best ways to hold even a fairly good man--not a blackguard, but an average man--is to know how to cook.

  • Many lines of mechanical trade afford sufficient exercise to keep the workman in fairly good health, yet few, if any, give a symmetrical physical development.

  • Soon he was able to cover five miles at a fairly good pace.

  • The third one, which came two years and one month after, I had a fairly good labour.

  • I had a good husband, a fairly good income, but when I think of poor women with probably indifferent or bad husbands, how do they live?

  • They seem to be fairly good workers, but not one good scholar among them.

  • These methods of supplying the defects of a naturally weak memory, or of strengthening a fairly good one, are one and all artificial.

  • How then, you may ask, is a weak memory to be strengthened, or a fairly good memory to be cultivated into a better one?

  • But if the way has once been found, the librarian, with only a fairly good memory, kept in constant exercise by his vocation, can find it again.

  • The restoration will cost some pounds and be a fairly good investment.

  • This mode of repair, it will be borne in mind, is when the upper and lower plates are in fairly good condition.

  • Mr. Prosper, when in a fairly good humor, would see the cook every morning, and would discuss with her the propriety of either roasting or boiling the fowl, and the expediency either of the pudding or the pie.

  • He is fairly good-looking, but hasn't a word to say for himself.

  • The two brothers had hitherto lived together on fairly good terms, for the younger had been able to lend money to the elder, and the elder had found his brother neither severe or exacting.

  • The road was in fairly good order, although somewhat muddy.

  • The sides of the monuments are covered with tables of hieroglyphs, most of them in fairly good preservation.

  • The shops and stores of the principal merchants are numerous, and, I suppose, under the circumstances, may be said to be fairly good, but to one coming from Europe or the United States the articles displayed are not very enticing.

  • In front of the skeleton is a double row of hieroglyphs, each row containing 7 glyphs, most of which are in a fairly good state of preservation.

  • About 1-1/2 miles from the village of Benque Viejo, in the Western District, is the only considerable aboriginal building in British Honduras, still in a fairly good state of preservation.

  • The skeletons of children are practically never found in the other mounds, as the bones have long since disappeared completely, while here we find the bones of a child under 12 years of age in a fairly good state of preservation.

  • Flight is often contagious, and Gougeard, who had fallen back from Champagné in fairly good order, feared lest his men should imitate their comrades.

  • Now and again a sadly diminished battalion went by in fairly good order.

  • Still, on all points but one, the French put up a fairly good defence, as I will now show.

  • The shade trees did not cover the lower pane to the full limit and they were able to look in and get a fairly good view of the room.

  • The front door was open, giving the visitor a fairly good view of the interior.

  • Fortunately a similar condition existed here also with reference to the width of the window shade and they were able to get a fairly good view of this apartment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fairly good" 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:
    brotherly kindness; curious custom; delivered over; fairly common; fairly good; fairly high; fairly large; fairly long; fairly well; feel what; feet above the lake; fixed price; four cubits; irresistible impulse; much snow; shut the; standard silver; still upon; taken notice; the way; this course; though about; what place; with several; woman should; your lordship