be apposite
Example Sentences
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They included every phase of every question that then seemed to be apposite to the great inquiry he was making.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Henry Reeves
I may adduce some circumstances from most ancient history and tradition which have not been applied to this question hitherto, but should have been, for they seem to be apposite and remarkable.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Henry Leach
That book was The New Republic, with regard to which in this place a few words may be apposite.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
The moral phraseology has ceased to be apposite, and an external standard of responsibility has been reached.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
It may be apposite here to point out that it was later and in the finest period of Latin literature that they ceased to exist.
From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
