Example sentences for: fair

How can you use “fair” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "If you say, Well, it would make me miserable, make my wife cry, but it has no innuendo, no unattributed pejorative remarks, no slap in the face for joy of slapping, it is news, not gutter gossip, and as a reporter I know the writer was fair, then give it to the copy desk."

  • Steven E. Landsburg, who writes Slate 's "Everyday Economics" column, has a new book out called Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values, and the Meaning of Life . Click here to order it from the publisher, The Free Press.

  • I prefer the latter approach, though I have of ten thought it might be only fair to mark such entries with some symbol (like a death's head).

  • The "Dialogue" on the capital-gains tax between Michael Kinsley and John C. Goodman points out one of the problems in taxing income: It's hard to make it simple and fair.

  • But the opening weekend--which, to be fair, has always been disproportionately important in shaping the way studios handle films--is now of such importance that throwing away the money that could have been made on Friday in order to make the weekend look better somehow seems logical.


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