Use "befitting" in a sentence

1. They applauded with gusto, and gave her the right praises befitting her rendition

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2. Allcock has consented that I shall have the sublime honor of hoping for his daughter's hand in marriage when once I have secured house and fortune enough befitting so wonderful a lady

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3. The gentlemen greeted each other as old friends, exchanged banter befitting sporting partners, and Mr

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4. The drapes were thick and heavy and the furniture was solid wood; the fabric the best quality, befitting royalty

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5. On the decease of an important personage, slaves have to be sacrificed, guns and spears snapped, bow strings carefully cut, arrows split, and the odd utensils, such as plates, calabashes, &c, cracked; and thus the spirit of the departed native makes its exit in a manner befitting its rank, attended by the spirits of every needful commodity, from slaves to the deceased's ditty pipe

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6. The following three proposals gave a strong indication that Terry felt he had a great deal of leverage and was not willing to settle for anything short of a contract befitting a business savvy, headline act

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7. Employees have their needs met as befitting their circumstances

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8. 8 For if my members were mouths And the hairs of my head voices Even so I could not give you the reward of praise Nor laud you as is befitting Nor could I recount Your praise; Nor tell the glory of Your beauty

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9. The hall was laid out befitting a king, royalty, or highly-respected nobles

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10. 20 We then having endeavoured to make allowance for the madness of these persons and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously acted in a manner which was befitting

11. The most expensive carpets and golden statues are seen everywhere, as befitting the son of Ra

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12. Befitting his name the shaggy stone troll’s lower jaw stuck out with two, spiky teeth curving outward over his upper lip

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13. But alas, it appears all he contemplates, when not with his girls, are thoughts more befitting to a holy man

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14. It would be great if a real business opened up there—maybe a restaurant that’s a little more befitting to a university town

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15. befitting your position as mother of my child and you will no longer work here

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16. We could have a place much more befitting, but you won’t

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17. Not this again! Befitting who, exactly?” he said pointedly, “Our son at a comprehensive school? Our daughter with her part time job at a restaurant? Me, a common or garden inspector at the EA? or you, the jet-setter? Is it really me behaving selfishly, Alice?”

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18. Not discounting the efforts of Sneha’s girls, Gautam ingratiated himself to the concerned authorities with befitting inducements

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19. 7 Then turning to his apostles, Jesus said: "From olden times the prophets have perished in Jerusalem, and it is only befitting that the Son of Man should go up to the city of the Father's house to be offered up as the price of human bigotry and as the result of religious prejudice and spiritual blindness

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20. It was the most befitting entry of the king the twins could conceive; they enjoyed every moment of the whole pageant

21. The church itself is also very plain, befitting the remoteness and more local patrons of it

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22. wanted something unique but befitting of him, something that would

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23. atmosphere of Carson City, and it seemed absolutely befitting of the

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24. Many times, he had sat in the witness box in the main courtroom with its spectators’ balcony and enormous judge’s bench that seemed befitting of those who were charged with upholding the law as he gave his carefully worded testimony in so many high-profile cases

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25. The building somehow seemed befitting of the drama that so often encircled those cases in which his testimony alone was responsible for sending the guilty to the death chamber and those cases over the last three quarters of a century that had been tried and resolved within

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26. The office was furnished in the same style as the rest of the bed-and-breakfast—all quite befitting of a mansion of its caliber

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27. Sitting by the bedside, Raja Rao entered into a conversation with Sathyam befitting the occasion

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28. Then came Saroja’s first birthday, and Sathyam couldn’t resist the temptation to present her a gold necklace befitting his intrinsic worth and his innate love for Sandhya

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29. The very fact that he was buried at Westminster Abbey meant that someone in high places thought that it was befitting such a man has to have been given that honour

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30. Why, didn’t Ashok Singhal of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, echo all this by blowing the Sangh Parivar’s paanchajanya thus: “It was for the first time in thousand years the Hindus got united and gave a befitting reply to those who attacked them in Godhra”

31. It is characteristic and befitting of the great Teacher and Prophet

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32. “If the meaning of life is to have a meaning,” he faced her voice expecting to see mother, lover, or goddess – something befitting a game, a hallucination, or a near death experience – but all he saw was the face of everything he had ever loved looking as if it were a poisonous viper that he had beaten to death each day of his life as payment to rise from his chaining bed of privilege

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33. Befitting an establishment that charged three hundred pounds for a bottle of spirits, an ashtray-sized silver platter of nuts and a terracotta bowl of olives accompanied the drinks

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34. figured that I would make it a little smaller befitting their smaller stature

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35. Now he looked serious and charismatic, befitting of a crown prince

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36. Grandparents were supposed to be old school and expect anyone younger then sixty to treat their elders with all the respect befitting a king

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37. Pon would be rewarded, in the way befitting the Kingdoms greatest warrior

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38. Pon would also be given a residence at the palace, befitting his new rank if he chose to accept

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39. regal pomp and grandeur befitting a princess

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40. They saw no one on the road all day, befitting a road that seemingly went nowhere

41. befitting a graveyard with all the ghosts pleasantly gone to the after life

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42. “That wouldn't be befitting a Captain of Manchester United

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43. Smith; a greater stateliness of design as befitting official occasions

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44. It remains now to offer a reflection on the relation between the two great mysteries of the Fourth Gospel; and this must be done with a befitting sense of the awe under which it becomes sinful men to adventure into that Holiest Place, which has been 'opened’ to us by the Eternal Love

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45. It was befitting that they would both die together,

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46. befitting a creature of his nobles and spiritual stature

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47. The lightning was stupendous and a most befitting gesture

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48. He had also told me that it was befitting that I

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49. High vaulted rooms with cool uncarpeted floors, great dogs upon the hearths for the burning of wood in winter time, and all luxuries befitting the state

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50. Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because (as he said to himself) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was; for it was only reasonable that, his master taking a new character, he should take a new name, and that it should be a distinguished and full-sounding one, befitting the new order and calling he was about to follow

51. All the adventures at the Castle of Miraguarda are excellent and of admirable contrivance, and the language is polished and clear, studying and observing the style befitting the speaker with propriety and judgment

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52. "Then I promise thee," said Don Quixote, "that, winnowed by her hands, beyond a doubt the bread it made was of the whitest; but go on; when thou gavest her my letter, did she kiss it? Did she place it on her head? Did she perform any ceremony befitting it, or what did she do?"

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53. O the great patient rugged joys, my soul's strong joys unreck'd by man, (For know I bear the soul befitting me, I too have consciousness, identity, And all the rocks and mountains have, and all the earth,)

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54. Joys of the life befitting me and brothers mine,

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55. He was a pedant, to the most extreme point, the greatest pedant I had met on earth, and with that had a vanity only befitting Alexander of Macedon

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56. accordingly the princess had me conducted to the bath, and a rich dress befitting

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57. charged to treat her as befitting a lady destined for the king, and to order for her

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58. She certainly seemed in no laughing predicament; her hair streamed on her shoulders, dripping with snow and water; she was dressed in the girlish dress she commonly wore, befitting her age more than her position: a low frock with short sleeves, and nothing on either head or neck

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59. I could scarcely refrain from smiling at this antipathy to the poor fellow; who was a well-made, athletic youth, good-looking in features, and stout and healthy, but attired in garments befitting his daily occupations of working on the farm, and lounging among the moors after rabbits and game

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60. As for me, who am of the whole blood of the whites, it is befitting that I should die as becomes my color, with no words of scoffing in my mouth, and without bitterness at the heart!"

61. ' So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty

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62. Quietude of custody, rather, befitting their station in that house, the vigilant watch of shepherds and of angels about a crib in Bethlehem of Juda long ago

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63. A prior should have a palace befitting his station, as the bishop did

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64. She carried herself with the pride and confidence befitting someone of her accomplishments, and her serene, regal smile looked almost—almost—natural as she extended her own hand to the man standing in her shop

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65. ’Twas the final Insult, after all I had borne, and I fear, Belinda, I did not take it with the Grace befitting a Lady

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66. Likewise he avow’d that their Song was a “wild and savage Yell, more befitting Beasts than Men

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67. “…‘neither your Presence in the House,’” read Isobel, “‘nor the Stern Moral Obligations befitting an adopted Father restrain’d me

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68. I remember singing “With or Without You” on the way back in my car, a ten-year-old Volvo befitting my economic status as a med student

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69. And what does God say? I ask you! WHAT DOES GOD SAY? God says that every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin

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70. She certainly seemed in no laughing predicament: her hair streamed on her shoulders, dripping with snow and water; she was dressed in the girlish dress she commonly wore, befitting her age more than her position: a low frock with short sleeves, and nothing on either head or neck

71. I could scarcely refrain from smiling at this antipathy to the poor fellow; who was a well-made, athletic youth, good-looking in features, and stout and healthy, but attired in garments befitting his daily occupations of working on the farm and lounging among the moors after rabbits and game

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72. Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the presence of the porter of a factious

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73. We have been unfortunate, and recent events have drawn us from that everyday tranquillity befitting my years and infirmities

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74. There was not the faintest note of complaint or reproach in the poor old man's words ; on the contrary, it was perfectly evident that he had not noticed anything spiteful in Liza's words, and had accepted her shout as something quite befitting, that is, that it was quite right to pitch into him for his remissness

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75. The mystery of death! And I would not have lain down beside you not for any money; I lie here as befitting my fortune, judging by the price

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76. Liza rose from her chair but sank back again at once without even paying befitting attention to her mother's squeal—not from "waywardness," but obviously because she was entirely absorbed by some other overwhelming impression

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77. But she was conspicuously lacking in the humility befitting her position

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78. ) "Thinking the matter over, I've come to the conclusion that the projected murder is not merely a waste of precious time which might be employed in a more suitable and befitting manner, but presents, moreover, that deplorable deviation from the normal method which has always been most prejudicial to the cause and has delayed its triumph for scores of years, under the guidance of shallow thinkers and pre-eminently of men of political instead of purely socialistic leanings

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79. This lady was young and nice looking, though rather too flashily dressed, and was accompanied by a young officer who unfortunately was scarcely in a befitting condition for ladies' society, having refreshed himself at the bar to an unnecessary extent

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80. But I contend that the innate, spontaneous courtesy and grace with which Madame Leroux received Vasya's enthusiasm, was equally befitting

81. “Yes, the only place befitting an honest man in Russia at the present time is a prison,” he thought, and even felt that this applied to him personally, when he drove up to the prison and entered its walls

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82. The day was clear and cold, as if befitting the holy-day they were about to celebrate

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83. There are signs of social life about the mansion befitting its own style of conscious superiority

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84. I immediately signified a due contrition and full purpose of amendment; when Nannette continued, still speaking with the gravity befitting the subject

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