befit
verb (used with object)
to be proper or appropriate for; suit; fit.
Example Sentences
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Inside, western shirts of blacks and reds hang from the walls, which are befittingly pink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
It took Clipse around two years to complete “Let God Sort Em Out,” befittingly, entirely produced by Pharrell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of Nelson Mandela and the much-loved and sometimes controversial anti-apartheid leader, also died this year and was given a befittingly rousing send-off.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2018
Photograph: Richard Saker The aching melancholy of James Blake's Overgrown became a befittingly sombre soundtrack in the frosty month of April.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2013
I am ardently supplicating fresh outpourings of the sustaining grace of the Lord of Hosts to enable His stalwart warriors befittingly to consummate the crowning crusade of the first century of the Bahá’í Era.
From Messages to America by Shoghi Effendi
