Sentence examples for bid fair from inspiring English sources
verb
To have a reasonable claim; to seem likely.
"We won the bid, fair and square," Mr. Ebbers said.
Chief executive Tim O'Toole said: "We won the bid fair and square".
Even if his auction makes the expected tonne of money, it will bid fair to be one of the less interesting cultural events of 2008.
In a preface James also claimed to have in psychic readiness a brand-new Dickens novel, "The Life and Adventures of Bockley Wickleheap," which he said "bid fair to equal anything from his pen while on earth".
"The Pelican books bid fair," Lane wrote in 1938, "to become the true everyman's library of the 20th century … bringing the finest products of modern thought and art to the people".
Last week, the maharajah of mahogany, Ralph Lauren, bid fair to become the pasha of plastic with a $12,585 acrylic console at his Polo shop on Madison Avenue.
"Obama is bidding fair to create that image even in his first year in office".
With Lobanovsky to inspire them, this Dynamo Kiev team bade fair to equal its famous predecessors.
The genius of our stem-cell genie bids fair to speed longevity's day.
Wired bids fair to be the most multisensed "hot" word on the American linguistic scene.
This bids fair to weld platitude to circularity: institutions survive because they work, and work because they survive.
