Example Sentences

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Jaguar took me to a hangar in Monterey to meet the E-Type Zero, painted a swimming metallic bronze and fettled to a straightness that is itself wildly anachronistic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2018

Much modified and fettled by the Chinese, the ship is based on the Soviet Kuznetsov-class design.

From Economist • Jan. 19, 2017

The next day in the morning they fettled them to ride.

From The Lay of the Cid by Bacon, Leonard

Theer niver was sich a dog as thot for bad temper, an' it did nut get no better when his tail hed to be fettled an inch an' a half shorter.

From Indian Tales by Kipling, Rudyard

"Thank you," said the man; "and now for what you have done I will pay you;" so saying, he tore a branch from the tree, and fettled it up into a club with his knife.

From English Fairy Tales by Jacobs, Joseph