How To Use Befitting In A Sentence

As befitting these sleepiest of islands, visiting is an informal affair. Times, Sunday Times
It is argued that the chiefs need accommodation befitting their ranks and of reasonable size because their jobs entail some requirements to entertain foreign dignitaries. Times, Sunday Times
Two of the ballet's encounters stood out, imbued with a kind of artistic brilliance befitting their underlying influence.
Instead of staying indoors, healthily watching a black and white screen – Grandstand, Hancock, Terry and June – they were out canvassing, attending ward meetings, collecting ministers' autographs, drafting position papers and generally behaving in a way unbefitting to young persons. The Ed Balls roadshow: enough to make you weep
N., the national agencies held veto power, giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.

Wilhem Latchoumia: a piano program befitting Gauguin, by Cecelia Porter Link: pianist Latchoumia at NGA
Indeed what a befitting gift for us from his government.
Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
Already he wore the light and baggy silvered suit befitting his rank and his boots were on.
She has given befitting names to two of her shops:.
Not even acknowledging her act is unbefitting a person of her character, of her stature, of her memory!
Befitting its global premise, multilateralism is all big picture. Times, Sunday Times
Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. Anne of Geierstein
I'm surprised Hutchinson didn't write under the pseudonym, TRUSTUS, a label befitting a man who held a plurality of key offices. Hullabaloo
Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
With movables and all kinde of furnishment, befitting a house of such outward apparance, hee caused it to be plentifully stored onely to receive, entertaine, and honor all Gentlemen or other The Decameron
All I can manage to say is that Melody defended me like a saint, and Pete acted… very… unbefitting of a gentleman.
She was clad in brocades befitting Kings; her breasts were like twin pomegranates, a woven zone set with all kinds of jewels tightly clasped her waist which expanded below into jutting hips; and her hinder cheeks stood out as a mound of crystal185 supporting a silvern shaft. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Without doubt his experience was slender, and it seemed absurd to pronounce concerning that of which he had no direct knowledge; but so it was, he could not outroot from his mind the persuasion that to plough, to sow, and to reap, were employments most befitting a reasonable creature, and from which the truest pleasure and the least pollution would flow. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
The word paternal is gender neutral, or may be used for the male guardian, but it primarily relates to or is characteristic of befitting a parent. France Lets In Gay Adoption Under Sarkozy « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
This should ensure us that the trial in question would be carried out in the most appropriate and befitting manner.
Something befitting two successful young attorneys with business to transact. A RODENT OF DOUBT
She clomped around the exam room in gogo boots only befitting a doctor who quite possibly got her degree out of a mall booth along with a strip of photos. Dan Bucatinsky: I Can See Clearly Now
However, 20 years after his death his remains were moved to a location more befitting the great Bard himself.
He plays the role with a well placed tragic regality befitting someone who feels he is above everyone, yet below really people, a strange place to be indeed.
It was an act of public courage befitting the man they loved.
Part I began with a swinging overture and maintained sprightly tempi and bright colors throughout, befitting the optimism of its subject: the annunciation of the birth of Christ. Tracing the Gospel With Renewed Vigor and Drama
Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Jets wide receivers Braylon Edwards and Santonio Holmes recently christened themselves the " Flight Boys, " a nickname befitting teammates who have aspired to reach the height of their profession this season, if not the height of hubris. '
Even the tinies of them looked every centimetre a ‘cricketer’ with all the trappings befitting a test player.
As the Hon Maurice Williamson said, we have all travelled around places where we have experienced unruly behaviour that is not only unbefitting to the person but brings discredit on other people.
It was a befitting gift to a great mentor by an equally grateful disciple.
Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
“I need a name befitting my status, and I can’t think of one that does the job half as well as Romulus.” Antony and Cleopatra
It is a performance of restrained frustration and quiet despair, coupled with the type of calculated ruthlessness befitting a killer.
No matter how you try to look at it, Galliano's behavior was unbefitting of a premium brand like Dior. Dior Axes Galliano for Anti-Semitic Remarks
He lived in the style befitting a gentleman.
He lives in luxury unbefitting a man of his character. A Prince of Darkness
Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
It was insulting and again, not befitting someone in my position.
And I thought she couldn't have looked, actually - dare I use the word more regal, and very well-suited and befitting for the occasion.
There will be plenty more of that in St. Louis Wednesday night, but for the players, the focus late Sunday was on this championship series—and, befitting a team from America's foremost beer city, they forwent the bubbly and sprayed Budweiser in the clubhouse. Cardinals Roll Into the World Series
It's an all-time record befitting the 8 times champion jockey who once won 221 races in a season.
“Woman,” said I with a tone of domestic authority befitting the occasion, “res tuas agas; — mind your washings and your wringings, your stuffings and your physicking, or whatever concerns the outward persons of the pupils, and leave the progress of their education to my usher, Paul Pattison, and myself.” Count Robert of Paris
All of this is, of course, behaviour befitting a right-thinking, well-ordered society.
This squares with the team song, which goes on about scalping the enemy and other warrior skills, befitting for a game of violence, which football clearly is (I speak as a fan).
The committee found Mr Green guilty of unbefitting conduct but accepted no one had suffered from Mr Green's actions.
Through the dry, chilling lines, he always seems one part bemused; you can almost hear a smirk in his voice, which is a deep, rich baritone, unbefitting of a 37-year-old who still half looks like a teenager.
Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
Black is the color of grief, for God's sake, and it's SO unbefitting for any other occasion except for… well, funerals, obviously.
Recently, our family has been discussing what would be a befitting, honorable tribute to his life.
Stephen Rice brings a sort of sensuousness to the shaping of each of the phrases that means the highly intellectual basis of much of the writing in terms of the adherence to the rules of stile antico part writingis always imbued with a directness of expression befitting to such a flexible voice as underlies this music. Archive 2009-03-01
Instead, they take up those weapons in the male armoury more befitting of their glabrous state: candour, bluntness, directness, scepticism. THE CALLIGRAPHER
The Gossip Girl a title befitting the appearance of the new rising star Lady Gaga, with a luster performance that stole the show at SNL, fans are looking forward to the episode with our Princes Diva. Lady GaGa to appear in Gossip Girl
Something befitting two successful young attorneys with business to transact. A RODENT OF DOUBT
He lived in the style befitting a gentleman.
Primarily, however, her antics seem playful, befitting a king who ascended the throne at age 10.
As is befitting of a 46-year-old, he looks more like a greying chartered accountant than a radical firebrand.
Or better yet, retire the pledge as an exercise in groupthink unbefitting a free people.
In a sneak attack befitting the kind of malcontent who would dare despoil Gawker: Defamer
Our forces are fully capable to give a befitting reply to our enemy.
Similarly, if a husband decides to part ways with his wife he is directed to do so in a befitting manner.
We should play our part by communicating what we think is more befitting.
Understandably however, this narrative may have implied behaviour unbefitting a queen.
They offered him a post befitting his seniority and experience.
They gave him a funeral befitting a national hero.
Yes, in other words I have a lot of time to play around on the computer today and I guess its befitting the birthday bashment.
The breaches of the Rules in respect of which the Tribunal had found the Respondent's explanations unsatisfactory, did amount to conduct unbefitting a solicitor.
He takes the stage with a stride that's purposeful, elegant, even serene, befitting a Californian who seriously loves surfing, martial arts and fast cars.
The Tribunal has found that Mr Wheeler was guilty of conduct unbefitting a solicitor for permitting Ms Harrison to work as she did.
Part I began with a swinging overture and maintained sprightly tempi and bright colors throughout, befitting the optimism of its subject: the annunciation of the birth of Christ. Tracing the Gospel With Renewed Vigor and Drama
Constructing harmonious schoolyard is a necessary requirement of befitting the times tideway, meanwhile it also is a objective request of following the educational regularity.
The producers claim that the 52-episode programme will present a variety of Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil songs befitting a smorgasbord of emotions.
Committing itself to preserving and protecting US capital markets, the Federal Reserve has since the onset of Mr. Greenspan's tenure in reality acted in a manner more befitting a Soviet commissar of the Cold War era.
The question was, did I want that attention by wearing something so unbefitting to my personality?
Beneath a straw-tinted coif, bushy beard and dark aviator shades, Petty mewled through the latter tune with a swagger befitting his new album's title. With 'Mojo,' Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers find a bluesy groove
The government has also arranged programmes to observe the day in a befitting manner.
The Black Eyed Peas donned oversized mirrored eyewear, leather-like bodysuits and rhinestone- encrusted microphones befitting Michael Jackson impersonators. Minnesota homespun costumes for Super Bowl
The final act, back in the States, is even more fantastical, with an added twist, befitting such a corkscrew plot, which doesn't make a blind bit of sense.
There is no doubt in the Tribunal's mind that all of the Respondents have been guilty of conduct unbefitting a solicitor…
American Classic, a title befitting the artist himself, finds Willie Nelson returning to the Great American Songbook in a sequel to his best-selling crossover album All articles at Blogcritics
Befitting such a stellar cast, the performances were superlative throughout.
In the wake of any aggression, we are capable of giving a befitting reply.
The issue presents the spirit and persona of our beloved Gurudeva in a most befitting manner.
Now, in his fantasy, he apparelled her like a man; and presently despoiling her of that habit, he gave her another of a nymph; which he took away also, to attire her with the ornaments and majesty of a queen; not leaving any raiment but he gave it unto her, either to make her wise or to make her a vaunting fool; and generally he imagined her to be grave, merry, discreet, subtle and virtuous, which parts are ill-befitting a fair comedian.
He is bouncing around in a manner ill-befitting one who has recently consumed so much lager.
Buying, selling, shopping, being psychoanalyzed: these were activities unbefitting any intellectual with a sense of self-respect.
Sadly, Bulgarian beer hasn't yet broken into the international market in a manner befitting the quality of the suds available here, however at least it has gained some acknowledgement.
I recorded the drums last, in the manner befitting a dufus, so I had to play them live to everything else, including the guitar break.
The administration has responded in a manner more befitting politicians than academics.
It was a repressive occurrence and terribly unbefitting of a class so powerful, articulate and determined as that of Castlemont High, 2001.
Something befitting two successful young attorneys with business to transact. A RODENT OF DOUBT
Along with taking photos the salons rent and sell wedding dresses or suits, and employ hairdressers and beauticians, who ensure the bride's appearance on her special day is befitting of such a grand occasion.
In the days of his kittenhood I christened him "Tassie" after his mother; but as time sped on, and the name hardly comported with masculine dignity, this was changed to Tacitus, as more befitting his sex. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others
You will address me in a manner befitting my station, my Lord. TREASON KEEP
They also produced a dreadful performance with their splendid defence the only feature befitting a rugby team. Times, Sunday Times
The first woman dressed elegantly now dresses in clothes too big for her with a dirty cap unbefitting her beauty.
For the National Symphony Orchestra, it might be befitting to continue with an American conductor (the type that also knows the fund-raising business best in the country).
What could be more befitting tribute than a poignant musical evening, bejeweled with similar soothing melodies, to a person for whom music was soul in itself.
I raised myself to a more upright position befitting a solemn physiognomist and a counseller and leaned forward.
A certain befitting gravity should grace the occasion," Chris agreed, placing his hand on Planchette. Jack London's Short Story: Planchette
The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness for judgement befitting our character and our motives as a nation.
Andrew Crossley was already fined by the UK ` s Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) for engaging in conduct unbefitting a solicitor (pdf) back in 2006. ACS:Law — copyright breakers
Much of the poem is written in a fairly straightforward style, as befitting both its broadly satirical content and conversational tone. The Times Literary Supplement
Wang started out with a musical genre befitting a Chinese pop idol, belting out cheesy, smooth sounding ballads that are the hallmark of the industry.
The site of Australia's Federal parliament house was much heralded as a design befitting a nation that had come of age.
But though they put on their best face, And tried to cover their disgrace, Folks thought it a befitting place For them, up in a Hayloft.
On the fourth day he made ready for wayfare and got together sumptuous presents befitting his elder brother's majesty, and stablished his chief Wazir Viceroy of the land during his absence. Tehran Winter
A failure to comply with decisions of the regulatory body was clearly conduct unbefitting a solicitor.
I personally appeal for the exhibition of honesty by our kingmakers in the selection of a befitting personality for the kingly crown.
It was felt that the organization should ensure that people know about Human rights and get their rights in a befitting manner.
Instead, they take up those weapons in the male armoury more befitting of their glabrous state: candour, bluntness, directness, scepticism. THE CALLIGRAPHER
'Somebody Ended Up Ratting Me Out': Miley's Naughty-Photo Hacker Speaks In a sneak attack befitting the kind of malcontent who would dare despoil Miley Cyrus's e-mail account and posted scandalously skin-baring, kiss-blowing, Gawker
It implies an intent to participate in a profession in a manner befitting that vocation.
But, befitting an era of tight budgets, only a little.
It's a media-centric term befitting the central role of right-wing blogs as media critics: Robert Fisk was the first big-time reporter whose reputation was destroyed by the meticulous fact-checking of right-wing bloggers. About that "scalping"... and other blogospheric collective activities.
She thought, Where is the decorum and dignity befitting a king? Christianity Today
They usually dress in stylish gray jumpsuits befitting of party animals.
Or better yet, retire the pledge as an exercise in groupthink unbefitting a free people.
Ubiquitously he's lauded and torrentially conferred compliments befitting heads of state; his charity is a marvelous deed.
It was perhaps used to convey the senior noblewomen in a manner befitting their status as the entourage made its way into Windsor.
The wise magician then ordered the young prince to spend the day lugging and stacking a pile of huge logs, menial labor unbefitting royalty.
In his younger days, the Karmapa spent much of his time in a monastery where he received a special education befitting a boy believed to be the reincarnation of a previous lama.
Clark's hotel room was a nice one, befitting his cover. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
behavior befitting a father
He was dressed in attire befitting the troubadour in his beanie and old comfortable shirt.
Well maybe his cellmate will be a nice, understanding sort of chap and deal with him in the way best befitting his crime. Army Rumour Service
They also produced a dreadful performance with their splendid defence the only feature befitting a rugby team. Times, Sunday Times
The English translation, as expected, is splendid in its attempt at tracking the most befitting word and word order.
These are regarded as unbefitting of an important historical and cultural heritage site or ‘customary’ practice.
Not only did the side that lies 21st in League One outfight their hosts; they outplayed them, showing precision and imagination that were far more befitting a top-flight club than anything QPR could muster. QPR 0-2 Rochdale | Carling Cup match report
Yes, in other words I have a lot of time to play around on the computer today and I guess its befitting the birthday bashment.
That said, my experience with classical feminism, however nuanced some of the thinkers were, always reeked of a binarism not befitting the subject. The New Feminism | clusterflock
But Piers Morgan is the mother-lode: the H-bomb of rank that will ensure those Merrrcan fiends will start to behave in a manner more befitting a nation that is dangerously close to getting its botty smacked. Piers Morgan Wins Celebrity Apprentice Despite Being Piers Morgan
Perhaps the words labour of love are used too often, as those three words are no more befitting than they are right here.
His disciples and admirers have decided to set up an organisation after his name which will be a befitting tribute to remember him by.
The Geneat was a retainer, usually mounted, whose services were those befitting a free man - escorting, guarding, running errands, and at harvest time, working in the fields.
Boudu rocks the household to its foundation with boorish behavior and manners befitting a beast.
It's weird, but Obama's strengths can morph into weaknesses during lectern combat: "Obama has a tendency to overintellectualize and to lecture, befitting his training as a lawyer and law professor," notes the article, and "he tends to the earnest and humorless when audiences seem to crave passion and personality. Ari Melber: No He Can't: Obama's Real Debate Problem
Mr Newman accepts that it was open to the Tribunal to come to a finding of conduct unbefitting on the basis of recklessness, but such a finding would have had a dramatic effect, he submits, on penalty.
That is a mortal trait, not a befitting attribute for an angel.
Then, stealing his thunder, but in the befitting le-gomena of the smaller country, (probable words, possibly said, of field family gleaming) a bit duskish and flavoured with a smile, seein as ow his thoughts consisted chiefly of the cheerio, he aptly sketched for our soontobe second parents (sukand see whybe!) the touching seene. Finnegans Wake
Officially, he's the "special adviser for green jobs, enterprise, and innovation," a clunky title unbefitting of a man so who's especially talented at turning a phrase. Slate Magazine
Mr. Obama has a tendency to overintellectualize and to lecture, befitting his training as a lawyer and law professor. In anticipation of Friday's debate, the NYT sizes up Obama and McCain.
She had done up her hair as was befitting royalty, and had placed a wreath of duskbloomers, a soft purple flower, intertwined with coral and pearls as a crown.
As befitting his academic stature, Edward Said was a member of countless organizations and societies.
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It is a beautiful solid silver trophy, befitting the memory of a great but modest man.
Sarah Dash, who announced, "I'm just happy to be up here in these pumps because two years ago I could not walk ..." remained the less outlandish of the three while Patti stayed with her traditionally puffy garb of late, outfits befitting the "High Priestess of Soul" title heaped upon her by so many. Charles Karel Bouley: Woman Power at the Altar of Labelle
And so her mother left the church and began to let her hair grow again, but stopped wearing necklaces and earrings because jewelry, according to her new pastor at Miracle Spring, was ungodly, unbefitting of a woman of virtue. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle
The tragedy in Arizona was despicable, but we cannot overreact or react in a manner unbefitting our free society. OG Oyiborhoro: Don't Politicize Arizona
He leads a lifestyle befitting a man of money, erring on excess.
I need more caffeine, to offset my loss of an hour of sleep to my region's move to "daylight saving time," which as Bill Kauffman points out is "that puzzling ritual of mass clock-winding ill befitting freeborn Americans. Libraries
What a befitting gift.
Your otherwise informative Informed Patient article on Jan. 18 is encumbered with a headline unbefitting the Journal: " Unexpected Limits of New, Free Preventive Care . Come On, Medical Care Is Never Free
Befitting our status, the CRs were in the subbasement, under the parking garage and next to the print shop. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE
He also wore an expression befitting a totally innocent man and revealed just the proper degree of shock, his eyes opening wider, when Van Sant asked him, “Did you kill your wife?” Every Breath You Take
Business & Finance *** China's central bank issued a secret memo to further rein in lending, highlighting continuing tightening efforts as well as how its economic management remains shrouded in secrecy that some call unbefitting the world's second-largest economy. What's News—
The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation.
Such behavior, which creates an impression that your political stance is more important than judging what is right and wrong, is totally unbefitting of Hong Kong's status as an international metropolis.
XIV. of the Concordat to 'ensure to the bishops and the curates salaries befitting their functions,' and by Article XV. to 'protect the right of the Catholics of France to re-endow the churches.' France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
Historian Anderson, of course, knows of countless cases of harassment of census workers, even dating as far back as 1890, when The New York Times reported about a citizen tired of being "catechized" by a census taker, who "grew more angry … until in a white heat he pitched into the servitor of the Government and threw him bodily out of the house, applying abusive epithets to him and insulting him in a manner that was anything but befitting the dignity of the position of the enumerator. Anti-Census Sentiment
Your conduct is unbefitting an officer of this court, sir, not to say a gentleman. Jilly Gagnon: Justices, SERVED
‘The meeting was held in a cordial atmosphere befitting the warm relations that exist between the two countries,’ he said.
She stood, waiting for the officer to greet her in the manner befitting a princess.
I responded in a manner befitting a grown adult and fellow professional in the computer geek press.
But, befitting its subject matter, the sparkle is definitely there.
It was somewhat unbefitting of someone claiming to be an empress to sit like an uneducated commoner, but Casen had always thought with a certain status comes the right to do as one pleases.
Is this really behaviour befitting an opera diva? Times, Sunday Times
In a 1940s-style apartment befitting a film noir gumshoe, a Montreal private eye shows off a collection of futuristic gizmos spread over his kitchen table.
This prohibition, as it is not befitting the service of God and your Majesty, has cost great suffering to the archbishop of these islands, grief to all this Christian community, and wonder to the heathen Chinese -- who even among themselves respect those whom they call "bonzes," who are the same as archbishops among us. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, co
Sure, he ran on a campaign platform befitting a candidate for president of a civic association.
Atherly said had he been at home, Durity would have been given the pomp and ceremony befitting a former mayor.
The story remains the same - wildly improbable and allusively rendered - but the music has inflated and deepened in a manner befitting the giant robots, imploding planets, and freaky cast of thousands it contains.
behavior unbefitting a father
Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
I think it is better for me to make the points I want to make in a manner befitting the delicacy of this situation.

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