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Example sentences for "only fair"

  • I shall write and tell them exactly how Mr Blunt treated me; but perhaps it would be only fair to wait and see how he behaves to-morrow and next day.

  • It is only fair, though, Mr Lynn, that you should give any one who likes to make the attempt to escape free leave to go.

  • In any comparison between the two sides it is only fair to take into account the special difficulties of the German case.

  • As regards the site of Dyffryn Aled it is only fair to quote the U.

  • As a good deal of indignation has been expressed at this step, it is only fair to give his explanation.

  • It is only fair to the other side to give the Egyptian narrative of the bombardment.

  • It is only fair to the British army to say that but very little looting was ever proved against them during this period.

  • If your matrimonial choice rests between her and me, Lord Fairholme, it is only fair that I should tell you I have promised to marry Captain Arthur Warden, of the Nigeria Protectorate, when next he returns to England.

  • But it is only fair to admit," she added, "that he seemed rather to avoid Mrs. Laing.

  • Jameson in case they found themselves attacked by and unable to cope with the Boers is a fact, but it is only fair to Dr.

  • It is only fair to state that at that time the Home Government believed the prestige of the Imperial authority to be sufficient for all purposes.

  • It is only fair to say, that Whitefield's estimates might be too high.

  • Mamma gave him some rather sharp lessons on this score, which it is only fair to say that he bore with perfect good breeding.

  • It is only fair to observe that, except Cary and myself, nobody manifested any great impatience at this delay; and even she, I believe, merely felt it out of regard to me.

  • It is only fair to mention that these are not merely my own sentiments.

  • It is only fair to add that the famous French sculptor, M.

  • All Quarles's work is journey-work, but it is only fair to note the frequent wealth of fancy, the occasional felicity of expression, which illustrate this wilderness.

  • Therefore, it is only fair to give Raleigh himself the credit for this and all other passages of the kind.

  • You're going away so soon, it's only fair I should see something of you.

  • It's only fair to me, too, that we should be together.

  • But it is only fair to Lane to remark that in such cases the publisher is usually far more to blame than the author.

  • In offering the following observations it is only fair to declare my standpoints.

  • Evidently they never heard of the popular superstition which declares that no one can read through them without dying--it is only fair that my patrons should know this.

  • It is only fair to add that the Federal authorities were no wiser than their general.

  • It is only fair to add, however, that the Confederate troopers had to supply their own horses, receiving no compensation for their loss by disease or capture.

  • It is only fair to add, as I also witnessed, that no congratulations were more warmly received by the victor than those of the man who had so constantly trod on his heels.

  • Joe was dead; but it is only fair to the survivors to say that ninety out of her crew of four hundred were also dead, the ship aground, helpless, and in flames.

  • It is only fair to say that books on seamanship, being essentially an accumulation of facts, must be more or less compilations.

  • Footnote 67: It is only fair to say that the only Eskimo I met were those at Kingigamoot, and the enmity of these particular natives to most white men is by some ascribed to the following incident.

  • And it is only fair to add that my companions were just as keen on an advance as their leader.

  • It is only fair to remember, however, that the Japanese factory girl comes from a distance.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "only fair" 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:
    found native; great party; name was; only after; only answer; only came; only daughter; only for; only found; only from; only half; only knew; only meant; only once; only party; only remember; only said; only served; only slightly; only tell; only thing; only wait; only what; only wish; understand that; will grow