How to Use only fair in a Sentence

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• Rounding things out with the Commodores would be the only fair thing to do.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
• By a five-point margin greater, right now 82% of the public thinks the economy’s only fair or poor.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2022
• Some patients view billing for a provider’s time and expertise as only fair and a good use of their own time, as well.
  — Benjamin Ryan, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• In fact, the women say that choosing two Bachelorettes was only fair.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 11 July 2022
• Alexandra has been all about the beachy content lately, and that's only fair because her summer seems like it's been pretty epic.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 5 Sep. 2023
• Last summer, Jess was promoted to co-head coach, giving the couple equal billing, which was only fair, since their duties were equal.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
• Three times as many, 76%, say economic conditions are only fair or poor.
  — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2022
• Views on the economy are more than two-to-one negative: 29 percent rate it as excellent/good and 69 percent say only fair/poor.
  — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2021
• Honestly, the only fair match would have been Clayton versus Olu — but our future Bachelor gets paired up with Martin (and wins).
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• The alligator was left to bask undisturbed, which is only fair given that the bayou is part of the animal's natural habitat.
  — Matthew Kitchen, Chron, 6 Mar. 2023
• That's only fair, because no one goes into a routine screening expecting bad news.
  — Taayoo Murray, Health.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• If someone wants to talk about how our industry’s herd mentality contributed to SVB’s fate, that’s only fair.
  — Nihal Mehta, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
• Plucking out genuinely funny gags in a watery Treehouse is only fair, so Homer's shriek upon seeing Maggie's posters in her bedroom mirror is a classic.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• This way of thinking about intellectual property seems only fair when the author’s brain creates a story out of nothing, as God created the universe.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 22 July 2022
• Perhaps a bit of self-deconstruction is only fair, considering how meticulously The Afterparty picks apart other genres to put them back together.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2022
• Completely abandoning algorithmic promotion might be the only fair solution.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024