befit

Example Sentences

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Other parts of the score feature jazz percussion and trumpets befitting 1950s England, where the story takes place.

From Los Angeles Times

Some beards are big enough for a giant, befitting Brancusi’s outsize artistic reputation.

From Los Angeles Times

The elite nature of the company befits the size of his achievement and the result it shaped for England.

From BBC

The temple was built over a razed mosque, and most political opposition leaders are boycotting the temple’s opening, saying it doesn’t befit a secular India.

From Seattle Times

Models are the star of this show, and the one for Wire’s stage, illuminated by one of a fleet of projectors in the gallery’s ceiling, looks like a rave-lit office befitting their postpunk disjuncture.

From New York Times