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Example sentences for "fit the"

  • Plays must be built in one way to fit the theater of Dionysius, in another way to fit the Globe upon the Bankside, in still another way to fit the modern electric-lighted stage behind a picture-frame proscenium.

  • Fit the snaffle-rein next, by the buckles, and see that it falls about half an inch below the angle of the mouth.

  • Here is an old small church, very strong and entire, only the cupola in the middle of the cross is broken down, and its space covered with leaves, to fit the place of a mosque.

  • When a shoe is wanted, and it is necessary to work it to make it fit the hoof, it is done cold, without ever putting it in the fire, which can readily be done because it is so thin.

  • It was also then customary to make the balls of marble or stone, worked to fit the mouths of different cannons.

  • Make one large flap of width to fit the top of the back, and length to cross over on front, covering the smaller flaps and fastening down on the outside of the front of the pack.

  • Place the point of the lower end of the spindle in the small hole or "fire pit" at the inside end of a notch in the fireboard, fit the socket-block on the top end of the spindle (Fig.

  • B is the bronze bolt, made with apertures to fit the key, and also to admit of similarly formed tumblers, shown in fig.

  • To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.

  • A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

  • A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

  • A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye.

  • To say that a force is manifesting itself in the germ and assuming the shape which it chooses to take or must take is also merely a phrase and metaphor, but it seems to me to fit the facts[36].

  • That question clearly does not "fit the case.

  • But neither does it fit the case to say that the fire is annihilated[516].

  • The two ends of the shovel are rounded, as indicated, and the lower end is cut at an angle to fit the surface of the shovel.

  • If there has been any error in the making of the several pieces, of course the drawer must be made to fit the space in that individual table.

  • If cut a little small, the uprights are easily made to fit the grooves by planing a slight amount from their edges.

  • The lower die is provided with a hole to fit the pin C, hence when that die is placed home C acts as a detaining piece locking the pieces A, A' through the medium of the bottom die.

  • Blocks of wood, to form the teeth, are then planed up, one face being a hollow curve to fit the circle of the wheel.

  • These strips (which should be about two feet long) should then be planed down on the sides to very nearly the thickness of the tooth at the pitch line, and hollow on one edge to fit the curvature of the wheel rim.

  • The special school, freed from the throttling grip of an iron-clad course of study, studies the need of each child, and makes a course of study to fit the need.

  • Instead he made up his mind that after measuring the community and the children he would, to use his own words, "fit the work to their respective needs.

  • Furniture of this sort should be made to fit the body in the same way as our clothing does.

  • In most instances the foot is made to fit the shoe, and the suffering that is endured by many so-called stylish people for the purpose of making the foot fit the shoe would be difficult to describe.

  • The back of a chair should be made to fit the backs of those who are to occupy the chair.

  • Walther's melody he has not got hold of at all, and in a state of intense nervousness tries to fit the words to the burlesque tune of his previous night's serenade.

  • When this has been done, cut a short block of wood to fit the peak of the roof and =Screw the Pulleys= into it two inches apart (Fig.

  • Whittle the hub ends of the spokes to fit the holes in the spool hubs (Figs.

  • Make it eight or ten inches long, and cut off the bottom to fit the slant of the roof.

  • In this cover you must cut a hole to fit the hole in the box, and place the hole in the cover directly over the hole in the box.

  • The toe-irons must be hammered or bent (a heavy screw-wrench is useful for this) to fit the sole of the boot exactly, so that when the boot is pushed home between them the centre of the heel lies in the very middle of the ski.

  • A breastplate, B, shaped to fit the shoulders, has at the neck a segmental screw bayonet-joint.

  • This given, she rings up the other subscriber, and connects the two circuits by means of an insulated wire cord having a spike at each end to fit the "jack" sockets of the switchboard terminals.

  • Close to this, revolving loosely on the shaft, is the clutch plate, a heavy disc with a broad edge so shaped as to fit the inside of a fly-wheel.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fit the" 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:
    autonomous republic; balsam boughs; bet you; each knight; fair face; fit for; fit for military service; fit the; fossil species; good farm; had decided; handsome youth; how much; inductive logic; itself sufficient; laughing matter; military control; more time; must observe; prevent their; summer rain; that nation; thrown upon; thus translated