How to Use fair in a Sentence

fair

1 of 4 adjective

• He is known as a very fair man.
• I try to be fair to my children.
• She did poorly on the test, but, to be fair, so did a lot of other people.
• He claims that the competition wasn't fair.
• It's not fair that she gets to leave early and I don't.
• That's a fair question, and it deserves an honest reply.
• I can't say I liked the movie, but, to be fair, parts of it are pretty funny.
• All of these are very fair points.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
• This is a fair deal for both sides.
  — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• And that’s just kind of not fair.
  — Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
• Though, to be fair, few teams do.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
• That call, to my mind, was fair enough.
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• No fair, why do the sons get two days?
  — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
• To be fair, who wants to bring work home?
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026
• How can that be fair to the rest of us?
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
• The fairest and best way is to tax the rich!
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026
• Hands clasped, head bowed, blank and fair of face.
  — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
• To be fair, those all kind of mean the same thing.
  — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 25 Mar. 2026
• Now, to be fair, Reese does some things well.
  — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2026
• This was never meant to be a fair fight.
  — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 4 Mar. 2026
• Then there are the fair weather fans.
  — Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• That’s not fair to the other guys.
  — Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• There will not be a fair and free election.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2025
• This happens to you a fair amount on screen.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
• There isn’t much more Betts can do, to be fair.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
• Well, a slightly less cool state fair.
  — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
• That wouldn’t be fair to anybody.
  — ABC News, 27 May 2026
• Leave the current, fair map alone.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
• Rivera’s report makes a few fair points.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
• Nobody said life was easy, or fair.
  — Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025

fair

2 of 4 noun

• In some ways, fairs have changed.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
• The fair in Basel is the largest.
  — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 15 June 2026
• And it’s been a lovely day at the fair.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
• The cops kept pushing the fair.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
• So, his wife went to the fair without him.
  — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
• One group went to the fair, the other the beach.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Time, 4 May 2026
• For two hours, guests shared so-far favorites from the fair.
  — The Editors Of Ad, Architectural Digest, 22 Apr. 2026
• At the Texas fair, people linger.
  — Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
• Sweet Martha’s had been Gwen’s first stop at the fair.
  — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• Take a look back at our coverage from the fair.
  — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 18 Aug. 2025
• Do regional art fairs have a role to play?
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• But the fair is more than a warm-weather retreat.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2026
• The upcoming fair will be full of fresh ideas.
  — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 28 Apr. 2026
• His verses adorned subway cars and posters sold in street fairs.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
• What music is playing at the fair?
  — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Sep. 2025
• Career fairs and career days mean well.
  — Kellie Lauth, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• For those who grew up beneath the grandstand lights, these fairs are not just events.
  — Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
• One pair of officers drove the man in the T-shirt to the fair.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
• The fair may also impact air travel in the area.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 18 June 2026
• Bubblegum pink nails with strawberry auras are fit for a day at the fair.
  — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 29 June 2026
• Staff also walk through the barns daily during the state fair.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2023
• Each ticket is good for one admission and is valid any day of the fair.
  — Allison Gibson, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
• Wine bars and natural wine fairs are packed with those consumers.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
• Israel’s painting was sold in the early hours of the fair.
  — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 28 Feb. 2026
• The district is hosting eight hiring fairs over the next two months.
  — Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
• Admittedly, that part of the fair was not back.
  — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 17 June 2026
• That would end up meaning an end to the fair's recent million-plus steak.
  — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• The fair closed several hours early due to rain.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 26 June 2026
• Book fairs allow those ideas to travel across borders.
  — Julie Finch, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
• Ninety percent of the great things at art fairs are placed a month or more in advance.
  — The Editors, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2026

fair

3 of 4 adverb

• Or does fair have zero to do with this?
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• Don’t avoid conflict — learn how to fight fair.
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 3 Aug. 2025
• Wells lined a ball that landed just fair down the right-field line.
  — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• Will fair follow through with any changes to petting zoo?
  — Robert Anglen, AZCentral.com, 8 Dec. 2025
• The vendor fair follows the parade.
  — Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
• And great news, the state fair shattered all previous attendance records!
  — David Plazas, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• This year, the fair hosted a whopping 53 brands up from 39 the pervious year.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2024
• Broward voters have the right to elect candidates who are fighting fair on as equal a playing field as possible.
  — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2026
• In addition to rides, bouncy castles, live entertainment and food, the fair featured a wrestling show.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024
• Judge pummeled a 93 mph fastball on the inner part of the zone 404 feet just fair of the left-field foul pole for a two-run homer.
  — Shayna Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2026
• In fact, especially in times of difficulty, the fair mattered.
  — Ruth D. Nelson / Made By History, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
• Held in Brussels Expo, this premier fair is oft-cited as a favorite of true connoisseurs.
  — Kissa Castaneda, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• By the number of visitors the fair attracted, the debut was a resounding success.
  — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 26 Nov. 2025
• Four galleries are making their debut at the Miami Beach fair and going straight into the main section.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 9 July 2024
• But with La Tiara signs outside the Gladstone plant and the hiring fair scheduled, those concerns can safely be put to rest.
  — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2025
• In a turnabout-is-fair-play moment, a Sparty fan showed during a break of the Wolverines’ game was treated with equal disdain.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
• Linden said a recent visit to another specialty toy fair showed his concerns about the state of the overall industry are widespread.
  — Rob Wile, NBC news, 29 June 2025
• Compared to last year, the fair featured 42 fewer hours of operation — a 21% decrease.
  — Jack Rodriquez-Vars july 28, Sacbee.com, 28 July 2025
• Geneva’s Watches and Wonders fair kicked off this week, and #watches are trending on TikTok to prove it.
  — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
• Currently, two large-scale renovation projects are in the works to make the fair-going experience safer and more enjoyable for guests, Black said.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2022
• Elgin recently hosted a landlord fair attended by about 70 property owners.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
• The fair presented an opportunity for these individuals to use their skills and participate in a project that celebrated free thinking.
  — Gillian Bagwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• At Art Basel’s first Middle East edition in Doha, the usual choreography of an art fair felt strangely absent.
  — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 9 Feb. 2026
• That makes the transition fair all the more important, according to Joshua Long, who leads the district’s special education department.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
• The committee for the career fair chose Beckwith as a speaker who would discuss the state of the economy in Indiana, McCall said.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
• The mural is the third in the Keepers of the Culture series from Ganggang, the cultural development firm that puts on the Butter fine art fair each year.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
• Is the early online blowback for Sabrina Carpenter fair based on our early impressions of Man’s Best Friend?
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• Undeterred by losing the initial engagement, Acheampong pivoted into a sprint and neutralised Munoz with a brilliantly firm but fair sliding tackle.
  — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
• Thankfully, the aforementioned averages still fair better than the national averages, according to Safe Wise.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
• The style was applied widely at the Salon Art + Design gallery fair earlier this month, where a familiar yet restrained Art Deco revival seemed to be in full force.
  — Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 24 Nov. 2025

fair

4 of 4 verb

• Once there, and after pre-flight testing, a payload fairing would be placed atop the vehicle ahead of launch.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
• Once there, and after pre-flight testing, a payload fairing would be placed atop the vehicle ahead of launch.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
• While thin sweaters might fair okay when hung on a hanger due to less gravitational pull, the same can’t be said of the majority of sweaters.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
• Because of its reusable first stage and payload fairing, SpaceX has pared back internal launch costs to about $15 million.
  — ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
• The Link spacecraft, weighing just under a half-ton at launch, fits snugly within the Pegasus rocket’s payload fairing.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 19 June 2026
• Now, the rocket is 11 feet taller (with a height of 141 feet) and has a 17-foot (5 m) fairing that can accommodate larger payloads.
  — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Using robotics for painting and fairing, for instance, would make the yard more efficient without sacrificing quality.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2025
• Renaissance fairs date back to the early 1960s when what is believed to have been the first was staged in Agoura, northwest of Los Angeles.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
• Franchisors that don’t expand into off-site catering or larger scale orders such as corporate events, sales meetings, parties and other opportunities for revenue will not fair as well.
  — Gary Occhiogrosso, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• The two landers reached the Moon (only Blue Ghost successfully touched down), and the fairing reentered Earth’s atmosphere.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2026
• Depending on the mission, the European heavy-launcher can be equipped with a short (14-meter) or long (20-meter) payload fairing.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026
• The classic bikini fairing harks back to the original café racer's front end, surrounding a pair of awfully low-slung clip-on handlebars and dual electronic clocks behind a compact visor.
  — New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2026
• The rocket steered east from Florida's Space Coast and climbed through the atmosphere, shedding its four strap-on boosters, core stage, and payload fairing to fall into the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
• The company originally targeted 2024 as the debut date for the medium-lift Neutron rocket, which will feature a reusable first stage and a novel fairing design.
  — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026
• The Super Cruiser sports an elevated handlebar, a padded Saddlemen seat with prominent back support, and a café-style quarter fairing by Memphis Shades.
  — New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2025
• While the payload fairing that protected the lander before deployment reentered Earth’s atmosphere, the upper stage kept orbiting the Earth without ever reentering and burning up, Gray wrote.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 May 2026
• Reportedly, this expansion is supported by hardware upgrades, including a more powerful, multi-stage Long March 5B rocket with an enlarged payload fairing.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
• Energy crisis around the world Although gas prices remain high for American consumers, Asian and European nations are fairing far worse, with depleting oil reserves forcing some life-altering measures.
  — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
• With qualification tests now complete, Neutron's fairing section has been shipped to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia, where it will be mated to the rocket ahead the vehicle's debut launch.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025
• Standing at 63 meters and featuring a five-meter-wide payload fairing, the rocket itself somewhat resembles SpaceX’s partially reusable workhorse Falcon 9, which is seven meters taller but has a similarly sized fairing.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
• Despite the Gaels' size (playing three posts 6-foot-8 or taller) and A&M's lack of it (just one player over 6-foot-8 took the court), the Aggies still faired well on the boards, 31-32, and dominated in the paint, 28-12.
  — Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
• The upper stage carrying the payload fairing will then continue in space, helping to propel NASA's ESCAPADE satellites to Mars.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
• The payload fairing for NG-3, set to launch the BlueBird satellite for AST SpaceMobile, arrived to the company’s integration facility at the launch complex this weekend.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2026
• Rocket Lab provided a live feed of the mission; however, at the request of Hypersonix Launch System, the builder and operator of DART AE, all video was cut before fairing release and stage separation.
  — David Szondy march 02, New Atlas, 2 Mar. 2026
• There had been doubt over the 2026 launch following the second failure of the H3 in seven tries in December 2025, but the issue was soon isolated as a payload fairing separation anomaly, clearing the way for MMX to proceed.
  — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026
• The payload fairing for New Glenn's third launch just arrived at the Integration Facility at LC-36 with @AST_SpaceMobile's BlueBird satellite safely secured inside.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2026
• While the next Neutron stage is being readied for its maiden flight, its Hungry Hippo fairing is undergoing post-delivery inspections ahead of transportation to MARS's Rocket Lab Launch Copmlex-3 (LC-3) for further tests.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• Lightfighter's other prototype, labeled the V3-RH, is a 135-hp (100-kW) super-naked with higher handlebars and no fairing, built for acceptance into the professional MotoAmerica Super Hooligan series next year.
  — New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
• After stage separation, the upper stage vehicle – operating with two of the company's BE-3U engines designed for the vacuum of space – carried the payload fairing in orbit with NASA's twin ESCAPADE satellites.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025