SUIT in a Sentence

Learn SUIT 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.
286 example sentences for SUIT, such as:
1. Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
2. They institute a suit against him.
3. He is wearing a western style suit.
4. I'm absolutely roasting in this suit.
5. It doesn't suit her to wear a miniskirt.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SUIT
suit
 n.  a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
 n.  a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I have my eye on a suite in Baker Street," he said, "which would suit us down to the ground.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Again she lifted the heavy suit case to her shoulder.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
3  She would drop her suit case in at the kitchen window, and then go on up to the Inn.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
4  She thrust her suit case in at the scullery window and walked on, till at the corner she saw the red curtain at the bar window.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
5  His suit of armour was formed of steel, richly inlaid with gold, and the device on his shield was a young oak-tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Gurth at length complied; and telling out eighty zecchins upon the table, the Jew delivered out to him an acquittance for the horse and suit of armour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Michaelis came: in summer, in a pale-coloured suit and white suede gloves, with mauve orchids for Connie, very lovely, and Act I was a great success.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Ay, he's got a will of his own, an it's hard to suit him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  There he stood, tall and slender, and so different, in a formal suit of thin dark cloth.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  You would know what you were about, of course; but that would not suit me.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  It did not suit his sense of propriety, and he was silenced, till induced by further smiles and liveliness to put the matter by for the present.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  Everybody was growing weary of indecision, and the first idea with everybody was, that nothing had been proposed before so likely to suit them all.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  When you have studied the character, I am sure you will feel it suit you.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  After all our debatings and difficulties, we find there is nothing that will suit us altogether so well, nothing so unexceptionable, as Lovers' Vows.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  Your cousins have occasionally attended them; but they would not altogether suit us now.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  I'm absolutely roasting in this suit.
2  My father bought a new suit on his charge account.
3  They institute a suit against him.
4  Air can be pumped into the diving suit to increase buoyancy.
5  The professor angled his report to suit the audience he was speaking to.
6  This suit has been in constant wear for two years.
7  It doesn't suit her to wear a miniskirt.
8  He had lost weight and the suit hung loosely on him.
9  He is wearing a western style suit.
10  She wore a bright green jogging suit with a white stripe down the sides.
11  His ex - wife has upped the ante in her alimony suit against him.
12  Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
13  The job would suit someone with a business background.
14  The city lifestyle seems to suit her - she's certainly looking very well.
15  One day, it might even suit the Kremlin to encourage this truculence.