SUIT in a Sentence

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For SUIT, below is one of 286 sentences:
She thrust her suit case in at the scullery window and walked on, till at the corner she saw the red curtain at the bar window.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suit
 n.  a set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together
 v.  be convenient for or acceptable to
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I have my eye on a suite in Baker Street," he said, "which would suit us down to the ground.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Again she lifted the heavy suit case to her shoulder.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
3  She would drop her suit case in at the kitchen window, and then go on up to the Inn.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
4  She thrust her suit case in at the scullery window and walked on, till at the corner she saw the red curtain at the bar window.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
5  His suit of armour was formed of steel, richly inlaid with gold, and the device on his shield was a young oak-tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Gurth at length complied; and telling out eighty zecchins upon the table, the Jew delivered out to him an acquittance for the horse and suit of armour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Michaelis came: in summer, in a pale-coloured suit and white suede gloves, with mauve orchids for Connie, very lovely, and Act I was a great success.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Ay, he's got a will of his own, an it's hard to suit him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  There he stood, tall and slender, and so different, in a formal suit of thin dark cloth.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  You would know what you were about, of course; but that would not suit me.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  It did not suit his sense of propriety, and he was silenced, till induced by further smiles and liveliness to put the matter by for the present.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  Everybody was growing weary of indecision, and the first idea with everybody was, that nothing had been proposed before so likely to suit them all.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  When you have studied the character, I am sure you will feel it suit you.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  After all our debatings and difficulties, we find there is nothing that will suit us altogether so well, nothing so unexceptionable, as Lovers' Vows.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  Your cousins have occasionally attended them; but they would not altogether suit us now.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
16  What you need to do is just to give your suit a quick brush.
17  It seems that the suit has to hang over till its next session.
18  He decked himself out in his best suit.
19  You have to suit your spending to your income.
20  These styles can be adapted to suit individual tastes.
21  He wore his one good suit to the interview.
22  I wore my boring, respectable suit to the interview.
23  You look very smart in your new suit.
24  You'll need to get a suit made to measure.
25  Choose a computer to suit your particular needs.
26  This suit is perfect for me.
27  He always twists the facts to suit his own purpose.
28  Red does not suit with her complexion.
29  Then comes the crowning glory of Frank's act, as he peels off his raincoat to reveal a smart suit underneath.
30  He put on his second best suit.