befit
Example Sentences
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Despite Canada’s recent struggles, the Americans expect to see a better version on Sunday, one befitting of a game that U.S. winger Matthew Tkachuk described as “the pinnacle of the sport.”
She was reminding him to be brave, as befitted a child of Rin, and not to fuss.
From Literature
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Their celebrations were joyous, befitting a team that showed incredible heart for the fight.
From BBC
They are so regular, in fact, that investors give them a name—crypto winter—that befits the belief that these downturns are as predictable as the seasons.
Composer Bernard Herrmann’s score, his last, is alternately mellow and roiling, befitting its placid but simmering antihero.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.