How to Use fair and square in a Sentence

fair and square

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• That was claimed fair and square, by the more deserving team.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
• There are still plenty of employees who earned their pink slip fair and square.
  — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
• Huntsville won this selection process fair and square based on the merits.
  — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 31 July 2023
• The bigger-than-life size will allow everyone to see the game fair and square.
  — Brittney Morgan and Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 25 July 2022
• Republicans could win fair and square in the next two elections.
  — David Faris, The Week, 5 Jan. 2022
• Earned merit, fair and square, is all anyone has ever wanted.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 28 Apr. 2023
• Let’s hope the name Ismail Elfath is not added to the list and that the better team wins, fair and square.
  — Leon Imber, New York Times, 15 July 2026
• Hats off to Cory for having a better strategy, beating me fair and square.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
• And at the end of the day, no one believes at this point that Michigan didn’t win the national title fair and square.
  — Ralph D. Russo, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• Doesn’t Clark want to test himself against the best, fair and square, if that opportunity comes around next season?
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 30 June 2022
• Overall, 6 in 10 Americans say Biden was elected fair and square.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2022
• These comments raised red flags for the prosecution, which argues the defendants were convicted fair and square and don't deserve a new trial.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2022
• Yes, there is no question that Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential election fair and square.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
• This behavior has become the signature animations of a fighter who knows they were just beaten fair and square, and that the opponent was the better man or woman that night.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• But almost nowhere else in this book does Pence acknowledge that his running mate lost the election fair and square, and that Biden is his legitimate successor.
  — Geoffrey Kabaservice, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• In digital payments and elsewhere, Apple has argued its successes were won fair and square, attested by its huge, loyal customer base.
  — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Of course, President Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square, and there is absolutely no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• Ohio’s legislators owe it to the voters of their state and the people of the nation to come together and pass a simple fix to this state election law and give Ohio voters the chance to reject Joe Biden fair and square.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 May 2024
• Crumbley’s appeal maintains this same principle applies to her, though the prosecution has long maintained that her argument is inaccurate and misguided, and that she was convicted fair and square by a jury of her peers.
  — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• With that in mind, imagine a scenario in which a few hundred thousand votes went the other way last November, letting Trump win the presidency and the Republicans keep the Senate, fair and square.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
• The Democratic Party blew it fair and square, and over half the voting nation and an overwhelming percentage of the Electoral College will raise their hands to move on and go with a new vision of the country’s future.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2024
• Republican Kari Lake lost Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial election fair and square.
  — Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024