FITTING in a Sentence

Learn FITTING 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 FITTING, such as:
1. Love makes one fit for any work.
2. I'll try to fit my arrangement in with yours.
3. We helped to fit him out for a trip to the Baltic.
4. I must ask the dentist to fit me with some new teeth.
5. The building doesn't fit in with the surrounding area.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FITTING
fitting
 n.  (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
 n.  making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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)
1  A solitary man, it was perhaps fitting that he should have died alone.
2  It is fitting that the new centre for European studies should be in a university that teaches every European language.
3  Mr Harley is going to accompany his wife for a fitting on Wednesday.
4  The plumber splayed the end of the pipe before fitting it over the next section.
5  How much time and mess could you save if the fitting was already clean?
6  Love makes one fit for any work.
7  He's so angry that he's in no fit state to see anyone.
8  The building doesn't fit in with the surrounding area.
9  I must ask the dentist to fit me with some new teeth.
10  He has been vested with the power/authority to implement whatever changes he sees fit.
11  She folded the letter so that it would fit into her bag.
12  He doesn't fit the traditional mould of a university professor.
13  We helped to fit him out for a trip to the Baltic.
14  I'll try to fit my arrangement in with yours.
15  Try to fit some regular exercise into your daily routine.