fettle
Example Sentences
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At the moment, you’re in fine fettle with a total of $2 million coverage.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025
Eighth two years ago and pulled up last year does not scream National winner although has been in fine fettle this season, including defeat of Limerick Lace when winning Troytown Chase at Navan.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2024
Steely Dan opened the concert with a sprightly set of jazz-wise pop that Donald Fagen, in seemingly fine fettle after a recent hospital stay, capped with a shout-out to his late creative partner, Walter Becker.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2024
With "Only the Strong Survive," he's in fine fettle as a singer, affording homage to the music and an era that has clearly existed at the heart of his life's inspiration.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2022
The Abel who was leaving was in better fettle, in all ways, than the Abel who had arrived in a hurricane, desperately clinging to a nail.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
Vocabulary lists containing fettle
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Novel Study: Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), Lines 1251–1904
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Dodger
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