FITFUL in a Sentence

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321 example sentences for FITFUL, such as:

1. He'll find no words to fit you.
2. Let the punishment fit the crime.
3. The facts certainly fit your theory.
4. He who was never sick dies the first fit.
5. There's too much data to fit onto just the one disk.

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 Meanings and Examples of FITFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fitful
 a.  intermittently stopping and starting; irregular; variable; unstable
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The fitful bursts of sleet had changed into a steady rain and the horses had heavy work even without a load behind them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  The alarmed colonists believed that the yells of the savages mingled with every fitful gust of wind that issued from the interminable forests of the west.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
3  From these no appreciable beams now radiated, except when a more than usually smart gust brushed over their faces and raised a fitful glow which came and went like the blush of a girl.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
4  The light raised by her breath had been very fitful, and a momentary irradiation of flesh was all that it had disclosed of her face.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5  Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Our Pearl is a fitful and fantastic little elf sometimes.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
7  Down toward the sea he went, in the fitful starlight, half conscious of the girl who followed timidly after him.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
8  Neither did he appear to have pursued any course of reading which might fit him for a degree in science or any other recognized portal which would give him an entrance into the learned world.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
9  He hustled on his overcoat, and bustled about in a way that showed that an energetic fit had superseded the apathetic one.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
10  He appeared to have the convulsive strength of a man in an epileptic fit.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
11  The pulses in my temples beat like sledge-hammers, and I believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
12  "Hope he don't have a fit," Lucy murmured.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
13  He'll find no words to fit you.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
14  Then she sat swaying her body to and fro, and making gestures with her unnerved arm, which seemed intended as the accompaniment to a fit of laughter, though her face was stolid and drowsy.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
15  He had a violent fit of trembling, and then sunk into his chair.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
16  God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them.
17  What you wear should be stylish and clean, and must definitely fit well.
18  If I gain any more weight,I shan't be able to fit into my clothes.
19  Just do whatever you think fit - I'm sure you'll make the right decision.
20  He who was never sick dies the first fit.
21  She has gone from being a healthy, fit, and sporty young woman to being a cripple.
22  I don't think this is the box that this toy came in,it won't fit in.
23  The facts certainly fit your theory.
24  It is easy to choose our own frame of reference and attack any ideas that do not fit it.
25  The rest of the clan thinks the uniform is only fit for a barbarian or a man of the lowest class.
26  Let the punishment fit the crime.
27  Icannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
28  There's too much data to fit onto just the one disk.
29  The formula gives a much better fit to the experimental data.
30  Architects know how to design buildings to fit into the land.