fitly
Example Sentences
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Sir, no act of ours can fitly enforce their freedom that does not contemplate for them the security of the home.
From Slate ● May 10, 2022
More than this cannot fitly be expected from me.
From Time Magazine Archive
The word would fitly decorate one of those ladies who must have their hair in the hue of a blanched almond.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Where would the American home be without the dry-goods industry?" was asked, and well and fitly answered at the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a young professor at Wilberforce College in Ohio, Du Bois had initially praised Washington’s 1895 speech, telegraphing his congratulations “upon your phenomenal success at Atlanta—it was a word fitly spoken.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
