How to Use fettle in a Sentence

fettle

noun

• But now Julia has been brought to life in fine Muppet fettle.
  — Frazier Moore, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2017
• The inner movements went along just fine, with horns in fine fettle in the jolly scherzo.
  — Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2022
• On the whole, the economy during this period was in fine fettle.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
• Both his parents are nonagenarians who have slowed down over the years but still appear in fairly fine fettle.
  — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
• Your business sense is in high fettle in April and your ambition should grow as May arrives, but this isn’t a good time to launch a new business.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021
• Your competitive spirits are in fine fettle, and your ability to take the lead is enhanced during the upcoming four to five weeks.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2021
• The reigning Premier League top scorer has started the season in fine fettle having already scored twice in three games.
  — SI.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• The Spanish stopper has played seven seasons at United, and has been in stellar fettle this campaign.
  — SI.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• One reason for the reversal of fortunes is that GM has convinced investors that its current business is in fine fettle.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Well, our president just told us the economy is in fine fettle, Everything would be hunky dory if not for Joe Biden.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
• The orchestra played splendidly throughout the evening, with the brass in particularly fine fettle and the strings sounding lustrous.
  — Bob Thomas, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
• Danny Musovski has been in fine fettle up front for Seattle this season and has 12 goals in 32 games for Wednesday's hosts.
  — Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
• To avoid a repeat this year, organizers enlisted the help of a company that usually lays the tarmac for airport runways and the track remained in fine fettle throughout.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 18 Jan. 2020
• The Pole has started the league campaign in fine fettle, with five goals in just two matches masking what has been a relatively slow start to the season by Bayern's standards.
  — SI.com, 25 Aug. 2019
• 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.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• In recent years, New York City Ballet’s corps has been a wellspring of talent, bubbling up to refresh and replenish a company already in fine fettle.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• An apprentice practices the procedure over and over, as if taking lessons in an immensely complicated musical instrument; the teacher looks for the sharpness, the fettle that comes with a hundred attempts.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• The most likable character actually is a private-equity guy himself, Leo Tresler (Michael Siberry in fine fettle).
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• In the central bit of nonsense, Nick visits a soothsayer (Ross Lehman in hilarious fettle) to try and learn the name of his rival’s biggest hit and then turn that into a musical to catch a new fashion.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2019