Example Sentences

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It certainly looks the part of a premium soundbar, though I’ll let you decide whether the glass top surface and mix of textures and materials are befitting of the price.

From The Verge • Aug. 13, 2021

To be clear, we aren’t endorsing these heavy-handed tactics, many of which are befitting Inspector Javert of “Les Misérables.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2016

Anne Simpson, head of corporate governance for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, said the changes are befitting of the world’s most valuable company.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 24, 2012

Now the human will is well ordered when it tends to acts which are befitting to man.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The great families of Gorkha have occupied the best houses of the Newars, or have built others in the same style, some of which are mansions that in appearance are befitting men of rank. 

From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Hamilton, Francis