suitably

Example Sentences

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Fifa president Sepp Blatter had to intervene to ask the duo to swap the trophies, with both looking suitably unimpressed.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

The only major American professional sport that takes place outdoors in the summer is a suitably languid and loose-limbed affair.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

From there she strikes out into the countryside in a suitably stately carriage.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Mr. Braude is suitably critical of his subject for her sometimes glib approach to life-and-death matters, and he pegs her appeal as “delivering hard news as if it was light gossip.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Once a scientist chooses a suitably close distance, all the calculations using the “true” mass and charge agree with one another.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife