FAIR in a Sentence

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For FAIR, below is one of 352 sentences:
Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have to sit here primly and be the acme of widowed dignity and propriety when she was only seventeen.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAIR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fair
 a.  in accordance with the rules or standards
 n.  market
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They had a little girl with fair curls, who wore a gold locket and was dressed like a princess.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  To her, there was never but one fair side to an argument.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  She did not want to be fair, although she knew what he said was true.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have to sit here primly and be the acme of widowed dignity and propriety when she was only seventeen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  It wasn't fair that she must keep her voice low and her eyes cast modestly down, when men, attractive ones, too, came to their booth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  But our fair Southland needs every man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  The day came when his pale blue eyes, perfectly cognizant of his surroundings, fell upon Carreen sitting beside him, telling her rosary beads, the morning sun shining through her fair hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  And we cleared a fair crop this last fall, twenty bales.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  It wasn't fair that a reprobate like Rhett Butler should have so much and she, who carried so heavy a load, should have so little.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  I shouldn't have expected either truth or honor or fair dealing from you, knowing you as I do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  She had no room in her mind for any picture save that of Ashley, lying at the feet of Yankee cavalrymen, his fair hair dappled with blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  Mrs. Trenor was a tall fair woman, whose height just saved her from redundancy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
14  But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
15  And God knows I want to be fair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
16  All are not friends that speak us fair.
17  There must be fair play whatever the competition is.
18  Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.
19  That is a fair approximation of the way in which the next boss is being chosen.
20  A fair death honours the whole life.
21  The belly is not filled with fair words.
22  There was never yet a fair woman but she made mouths.
23  This kind of behavior violates many people's sense of fair play.
24  They spend a fair slice of the budget on research and development.
25  Beauty may have fair leaves, but bitter fruit.
26  The peacock has fair feathers, but foul feet.
27  People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very prone to develop skin cancer.
28  He stands a fair chance of going abroad.
29  There's a fair chance that nobody will come to the talk.
30  The rides at the fair just can't compare with the rides at Disneyland.