FAIR in a Sentence

Learn FAIR 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.
352 example sentences for FAIR, such as:
1. All is fair in love and war.
2. He did not receive a fair trial.
3. And God knows I want to be fair.
4. A trial must be fair and impartial.
5. But our fair Southland needs every man.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FAIR
fair
 n.  a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
 a.  (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They had a little girl with fair curls, who wore a gold locket and was dressed like a princess.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  To her, there was never but one fair side to an argument.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  She did not want to be fair, although she knew what he said was true.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have to sit here primly and be the acme of widowed dignity and propriety when she was only seventeen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  It wasn't fair that she must keep her voice low and her eyes cast modestly down, when men, attractive ones, too, came to their booth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  But our fair Southland needs every man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  The day came when his pale blue eyes, perfectly cognizant of his surroundings, fell upon Carreen sitting beside him, telling her rosary beads, the morning sun shining through her fair hair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  And we cleared a fair crop this last fall, twenty bales.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  It wasn't fair that a reprobate like Rhett Butler should have so much and she, who carried so heavy a load, should have so little.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  I shouldn't have expected either truth or honor or fair dealing from you, knowing you as I do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  She had no room in her mind for any picture save that of Ashley, lying at the feet of Yankee cavalrymen, his fair hair dappled with blood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  Mrs. Trenor was a tall fair woman, whose height just saved her from redundancy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
14  But, by gad, that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
15  And God knows I want to be fair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
1  It's only fair to add that they were not told about the problem until the last minute.
2  All is fair in love and war.
3  It's only fair to let her know that you intend to apply.
4  It's a well-rounded article which is fair to both sides of the dispute.
5  An attorney representing a client before a court helps to make the trial fair, but the attorney is not neutral.
6  A fair employer, when arranging for the pay of a carpenter, does not try to beat him down.
7  The exhibitors at the trade fair passed out free samples to stimulate interest.
8  It's not fair the way my sister is always singled out for special treatment.
9  That trial is not fair where affection is the judge.
10  He did not receive a fair trial.
11  The men claim they did not receive a fair trial.
12  A trial must be fair and impartial.
13  The enormous publicity surrounding the case will make it very difficult to hold a fair trial.
14  He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble.
15  This type of exam does not provide a fair test of the student's knowledge.