fettle
Example Sentences
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Staff members modified these new spaces to suit the leggy wading birds, adding feeding pools, trimming low-hanging tree branches and raising the sprinklers designed to keep their feathers in fine fettle.
From New York Times
"Listen and float with us in between labels purgatory. Pat D. is in fine fettle and we are young, together, and tight."
From Salon
In currency markets, the dollar was in fine fettle on safe-haven demand.
From Reuters
With chemotherapy behind him, Wood said he’s “in fine fettle” and has been keeping to a daily regimen of tai chi, yoga and “a little Boxercise.”
From Los Angeles Times
As Richard Brumère, a famed secret service agent rumored to have once felled a rhino with his bare hands, the actor is in fine fettle.
From New York Times
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