FAIRLY in a Sentence

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352 example sentences for FAIRLY, such as:

1. The house had a fairly large garden.
2. I'm fairly certain I can do the job.
3. These problems now seem fairly common.
4. The bad weather has been fairly general.
5. It gives a fairly good account of the affair.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAIRLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fairly
 ad.  in fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Yet his zeal for certain studies was remarkable, and within eccentric limits his knowledge was so extraordinarily ample and minute that his observations have fairly astounded me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  It gives a fairly good account of the affair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
4  THE intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we were all three fairly dumfoundered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  Scarcely had she got fairly into it, however, before the beasts closed in behind her, and she found herself completely imbedded in the moving stream of fierce-eyed, long-horned bullocks.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
6  They had seen no signs of any pursuers, and Jefferson Hope began to think that they were fairly out of the reach of the terrible organization whose enmity they had incurred.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
7  When I had him fairly inside my cab, my heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
8  I was a fairly good dispenser, so I worked this alkaloid into small, soluble pills, and each pill I put in a box with a similar pill made without the poison.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9  After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
10  The dogs learned to read fairly well, but were not interested in reading anything except the Seven Commandments.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
11  The farm had had a fairly successful year, but was still short of money.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
12  And she was broad; she fairly filled the path, swaying slightly as she walked, and plucking a leaf here and there from the hedge.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
13  Win it fairly," said the Prior, "and wear it as ye will; I will trust your giving true response, on your word as a knight and as a churchman.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  I affirm he will meet fairly every honourable challenge.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  The fifth knight alone maintained the honour of his party, and parted fairly with the Knight of St John, both splintering their lances without advantage on either side.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
16  I'm fairly certain I can do the job.
17  I know him fairly well, but I wouldn't say we were really close friends.
18  These problems now seem fairly common.
19  But most religious thinkers accommodated themselves fairly rapidly to the basic concept of evolution.
20  American culture is in many ways still fairly prudish.
21  A fairly strong current seemed to be moving the whole boat.
22  It would be dishonest not to present the data as fairly as possible.
23  They have a fairly democratic form of government.
24  It's fairly entertaining as films go, but I wouldn't describe it as unmissable.
25  We shall at this stage keep the discussion fairly general.
26  An industrial tribunal has no jurisdiction to decide whether an employee was fairly or unfairly dismissed.
27  They produced some fairly conclusive evidence.
28  The house had a fairly large garden.
29  The bad weather has been fairly general.
30  He's strikes me as a fairly together sort of a guy.