Example Sentences

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It was an unfitting addition to one of the best rivalries in international soccer history, especially given the fact Thursday’s game may prove to be the last competitive match the U.S. plays at Azteca.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2022

“At least they make it clear - they put him on record - that his actions were unfitting of a legislator.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 18, 2021

“At least they make it clear — they put him on record — that his actions were unfitting of a legislator.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2021

Fr Tomás Walsh, of Gurranabraher parish near Cork, has written about the menace of unfitting gifts in the weekly parish newsletter.

From Fox News • Aug. 6, 2019

‘Your tongue is strangely changed; but the name sounds not unfitting so. Hobbits! No report that I have heard does justice to the truth.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien