FITTING in a Sentence

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321 example sentences for FITTING, such as:

1. Let the punishment fit the crime.
2. The facts certainly fit your theory.
3. He who was never sick dies the first fit.
4. The waste unit is designed to fit under the sink.
5. There's too much data to fit onto just the one disk.

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 Meanings and Examples of FITTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fitting
 n.  small accessory to a larger system; small detachable part for a machine or apparatus; act of trying on clothes
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Mammy finally turned the men out of the dining room and closed the door, so the fitting could begin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  She did not want to display her condition in this poorly fitting black dress which accentuated rather than hid her figure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  If one did drag one's self out of bed at such an hour, and come down fresh and radiant to the monotony of note-writing, some special recognition of the sacrifice seemed fitting.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
5  Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  They were always black and tightly fitting, with an expensive glitter: she was the kind of woman who wore jet at breakfast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7  The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the oppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her assembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
8  And it had suddenly occurred to her that Rosedale, who had surprised Trenor's confidence, was the fitting person to receive and transmit her version of the facts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  Nor did the scout fail to throw in a pertinent inquiry, whenever a fitting occasion presented.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
10  I am your prisoner, and, at a fitting time shall be ready to follow, even to my death.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
11  I bent myself to devising ways and means for our escape, and meanwhile strove, on all fitting occasions, to impress them with the gross fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  All things being arranged, they only waited a fitting opportunity to put their plan in execution.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
13  Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  He was close beside me, when I walked away from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers into the still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
15  Everything about his face and figure, from his short-cropped black hair and freshly shaven chin down to his loosely fitting, brand-new uniform, was simple and at the same time elegant.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
16  The waste unit is designed to fit under the sink.
17  God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them.
18  What you wear should be stylish and clean, and must definitely fit well.
19  If I gain any more weight,I shan't be able to fit into my clothes.
20  Just do whatever you think fit - I'm sure you'll make the right decision.
21  He who was never sick dies the first fit.
22  She has gone from being a healthy, fit, and sporty young woman to being a cripple.
23  I don't think this is the box that this toy came in,it won't fit in.
24  The facts certainly fit your theory.
25  It is easy to choose our own frame of reference and attack any ideas that do not fit it.
26  The rest of the clan thinks the uniform is only fit for a barbarian or a man of the lowest class.
27  Let the punishment fit the crime.
28  Icannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
29  There's too much data to fit onto just the one disk.
30  The formula gives a much better fit to the experimental data.