Sentence examples for fit to please from inspiring English sources

Richard Baxter, on the other hand, described Anne as "one of [Hale's] own judgment and temper, prudent and loving, and fit to please him; and that would not draw on him the trouble of much acquaintance and relations".

A conservative news site (that believes the proper role of a woman in our society is to stay fit to please her husband and have lots of babies whether she wants to or not) pooh-poohed the notion of a superhero movie featuring a woman being anything but a "PR disaster".

At the beginning of a relationship, you're bending yourself to fit and to please the other person.

It used to say things so I'd fit in, to please my parents, to please my teachers.

"Any changes you see fit to make, please make," he wrote of his fourth story, in October.

Girls between the ages of 7 and 13, hard to fit and hard to please, have a new shopping option with the recent opening of Sasha's in Rye.

From "All the news that's fit to print" to "please delete after you read" and cannot "go into detail because it is an intelligence matter": that's the gap between the New York Times's marketed brand and its reality.

I say this because I worry you may be veering off course in a fit of desperation to please investors.

She remembered the impression she'd had on the train, that he was a chameleon making himself up to fit into any circumstances — to please her, or so that he could appear competent and connected.

In her first marriage, Norden says, she was "always trying to fit in, and trying to please".

In her first marriage, Norden says, she was "always trying to fit in, and trying to please". But in Reno, she remembers, "I found something in myself that's been there all of my life from then on.