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Example sentences for "fit for"

  • It is fit for cutting, if all things answer well, in the beginning of July.

  • It must not be supposed, as some have believed, that the fern root, wherever it grows, is fit for food.

  • The shoots appear above ground in about a week; at the end of two months the plant flowers, when it is fit for cutting, which is done with a pruning knife.

  • But shew me a good thing within my reach; convince me that it is in my power to attain it; demonstrate to me that it is fit for me, and I am fit for it; then begins the career of passion.

  • But what is perhaps worse is, that we are accustomed to pronounce, that that soil, which will not produce the crop of which we have attempted to make it fertile, is fit for nothing.

  • The majority of boys, at the very period when the buds of intellect begin to unfold themselves, are so accustomed to be told that they are dull and fit for nothing, that the most pernicious effects are necessarily produced.

  • The great middle space would make a parlor, by-and- by, fit for a palace.

  • Winfried; "and will you take the wood that is fit for a bow to make a distaff?

  • The land which is fit for potatoes, is fit for almost every other useful vegetable.

  • Grave it with themes of chaste design, Fit for a simple board like mine.

  • Fit for a woman's toilet hours, "But not at all the style for Kings.

  • Such a society is the crown of a literary metropolis; if a town has not material for it, and spirit and good feeling enough to organize it, it is a mere caravansary, fit for a man of genius to lodge in, but not to live in.

  • He'll be fit for naething or the week be oot.

  • I dinna know of a place nearer, fit for gentlefowk, mem.

  • A large sum must yet be spent on education in that direction, before his knowledge would be of money-value, fit for offer in the scientific market!

  • Why then the noble plot is fit for birth; And labouring France cries out for midwife hands.

  • A multitude of these were floating here and there along the river, many of them curling upward, so as to form little boats, fit for fairies to voyage in.

  • It is fit for baptisms; but one would not wish it to be polluted by having sins washed into it.

  • But let such know that poets as well as kings ought rather to consider what is fit for them to give than others to receive; that they are fain to have regard to the exchange of language, and write high or low according as that runs.

  • Because of his righteous judgment, this work is fit for no creature; it is only fit for the Son of God.

  • He is there a prophet for us, by which office of his he hath received to communicate the whole will of the eternal God, so far as is fit for us to know in this world, or in that which is to come.

  • But 'worse' can never mean finding out that your husband is fit for Newgate," said Mrs. Hackbutt.

  • How can you bear to be so contemptible, when others are working and striving, and there are so many things to be done--how can you bear to be fit for nothing in the world that is useful?

  • There is that about them which only the vastness, the multiplicity and the vitality of America would seem able to comprehend, to give scope and illustration to, or to be fit for, or even originate.

  • Keep them he could not; breaking them, he became too much polluted to be fit for mercy.

  • When he gets his hand in there's naething he's no fit for wi' time.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fit for" 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:
    accept battle; another branch; common noun; doing things; fit for; fit for military service; fit the; higher civilization; its true; mental image; modern language; more right; mule team; obiter dicta; otherwise known; printing house; pulled down; rather think; serve cold; stem short; strong appeal; successful attack; welcome guest; western coast