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He liked Jo, for her odd, blunt ways suited him, and she seemed to understand the boy almost as well as if she had been one herself.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUITED
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suited
 a.  meant or adapted for an occasion or use
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Thank you, sir," And Jo was quite comfortable after that, for it suited her exactly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
2  He liked Jo, for her odd, blunt ways suited him, and she seemed to understand the boy almost as well as if she had been one herself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
3  "'I have had many pairs of slippers in my life, but I never had any that suited me so well as yours,'" continues Jo.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIX
4  "I'll try," said Amy, for the advice suited her, and after a flurry to get ready, she ran after the friends, who were just disappearing over the hill.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
5  For a moment Jo looked as if she would agree, for wild as the plan was, it just suited her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
6  In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone's advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
7  Because, dear, I don't think you suited to one another.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
8  So she gave him a great bronze axe that suited his hands; it was sharpened on both sides, and had a beautiful olive-wood handle fitted firmly on to it.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
9  When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Telemachus bound on his sandals and took a strong spear that suited his hands, for he wanted to go into the city.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
10  Above twenty of those clad in this costume were full-grown girls, or rather young women; it suited them ill, and gave an air of oddity even to the prettiest.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  Retaining every minute form of respect, every propriety of my station, I could still meet him in argument without fear or uneasy restraint; this suited both him and me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly: he looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and low; exactly the humour suited for making the most of these disagreeable things.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  It suited Catherine to have him there: at any rate, it made her hate her room up-stairs more than ever: and she would compel me to find out business below, that she might accompany me.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
16  I'm absolutely roasting in this suit.
17  My father bought a new suit on his charge account.
18  They institute a suit against him.
19  Air can be pumped into the diving suit to increase buoyancy.
20  The professor angled his report to suit the audience he was speaking to.
21  This suit has been in constant wear for two years.
22  It doesn't suit her to wear a miniskirt.
23  He had lost weight and the suit hung loosely on him.
24  He is wearing a western style suit.
25  She wore a bright green jogging suit with a white stripe down the sides.
26  His ex - wife has upped the ante in her alimony suit against him.
27  Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
28  The job would suit someone with a business background.
29  The city lifestyle seems to suit her - she's certainly looking very well.
30  One day, it might even suit the Kremlin to encourage this truculence.