FIT in a Sentence

Learn FIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

321 example sentences for FIT, such as:

1. He'll find no words to fit you.
2. Let the punishment fit the crime.
3. The facts certainly fit your theory.
4. He who was never sick dies the first fit.
5. I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fit
 v.  be agreeable or acceptable to, be the right size or shape
 n.  a sudden, brief period when something happens that is beyond your control
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Neither did he appear to have pursued any course of reading which might fit him for a degree in science or any other recognized portal which would give him an entrance into the learned world.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  He hustled on his overcoat, and bustled about in a way that showed that an energetic fit had superseded the apathetic one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  He appeared to have the convulsive strength of a man in an epileptic fit.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  The pulses in my temples beat like sledge-hammers, and I believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
5  "Hope he don't have a fit," Lucy murmured.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
6  He'll find no words to fit you.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
7  Then she sat swaying her body to and fro, and making gestures with her unnerved arm, which seemed intended as the accompaniment to a fit of laughter, though her face was stolid and drowsy.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
8  He had a violent fit of trembling, and then sunk into his chair.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
9  The bridesmaids, down to little Jane Gradgrind, were, in an intellectual point of view, fit helpmates for the calculating boy; and there was no nonsense about any of the company.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
10  The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
11  The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
12  No," said the Jester, grinning, "but they may reach Sheffield if they have good luck, and that is as fit a place for them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  The Jew twisted himself in the saddle, like a man in a fit of the colic; but his better feelings predominated over those which were most familiar to him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  The purveyors of the Prince, who exercised on this and other occasions the full authority of royalty, had swept the country of all that could be collected which was esteemed fit for their master's table.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  De Bracy was the first to break silence by an uncontrollable fit of laughter, wherein he was joined, though with more moderation, by the Templar.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
16  He who was never sick dies the first fit.
17  She has gone from being a healthy, fit, and sporty young woman to being a cripple.
18  I don't think this is the box that this toy came in,it won't fit in.
19  The facts certainly fit your theory.
20  It is easy to choose our own frame of reference and attack any ideas that do not fit it.
21  The rest of the clan thinks the uniform is only fit for a barbarian or a man of the lowest class.
22  Let the punishment fit the crime.
23  Icannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
24  There's too much data to fit onto just the one disk.
25  The formula gives a much better fit to the experimental data.
26  Architects know how to design buildings to fit into the land.
27  Now other architects know how to design buildings to fit into the land.
28  He committed suicide during a fit of depression.
29  The safety belt is easy to fit as there's no need to bolt it to seat belt anchorage points.
30  I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.