FITNESS in a Sentence

Learn FITNESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

321 example sentences for FITNESS, such as:

1. He'll find no words to fit you.
2. Love makes one fit for any work.
3. I'll try to fit my arrangement in with yours.
4. We helped to fit him out for a trip to the Baltic.
5. I must ask the dentist to fit me with some new teeth.

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 Meanings and Examples of FITNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fitness
 n.  health; vigor; state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Esther had given her a rosary of black beads with a silver cross, but Amy hung it up and did not use it, feeling doubtful as to its fitness for Protestant prayers.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER NINETEEN
2  She could not acquire the air of doing things because she wanted to, and making her choice the final seal of their fitness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
3  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
4  He hustled on his overcoat, and bustled about in a way that showed that an energetic fit had superseded the apathetic one.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
5  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
6  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...
7  "Hope he don't have a fit," Lucy murmured.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
8  He'll find no words to fit you.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
9  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
10  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
11  The bridesmaids, down to little Jane Gradgrind, were, in an intellectual point of view, fit helpmates for the calculating boy; and there was no nonsense about any of the company.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
13  The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
14  No," said the Jester, grinning, "but they may reach Sheffield if they have good luck, and that is as fit a place for them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  The Jew twisted himself in the saddle, like a man in a fit of the colic; but his better feelings predominated over those which were most familiar to him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
16  In choosing a partner we are subconsciously assessing their evolutionary fitness to be a mother of children or father provider and protector.
17  Good muscles are one of the prerequisites of physical fitness.
18  You need a good level of physical fitness for this sport.
19  Guests at the health spa receive a range of beauty and fitness treatments.
20  It's the fitness and the enjoyment that draws me in - it's a lot of fun.
21  The harm and benefit in parasitic interactions concern the biological fitness of the organisms involved.
22  Love makes one fit for any work.
23  He's so angry that he's in no fit state to see anyone.
24  The building doesn't fit in with the surrounding area.
25  I must ask the dentist to fit me with some new teeth.
26  He has been vested with the power/authority to implement whatever changes he sees fit.
27  She folded the letter so that it would fit into her bag.
28  He doesn't fit the traditional mould of a university professor.
29  We helped to fit him out for a trip to the Baltic.
30  I'll try to fit my arrangement in with yours.