be apposite
Example Sentences
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"It should be 'fairy land,'" suggested all of them, "so as to be apposite!"
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
They included every phase of every question that then seemed to be apposite to the great inquiry he was making.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Reeves, Henry
The moral phraseology has ceased to be apposite, and an external standard of responsibility has been reached.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
That book was The New Republic, with regard to which in this place a few words may be apposite.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
It may be apposite here to point out that it was later and in the finest period of Latin literature that they ceased to exist.
From Initiation into Literature by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.
