How do you use Fettle in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like fitness or remove, plus the exact meaning.
Fettle meaning
- A state of physical condition; kilter or trim.
- One's mental state; spirits.
- Sand used to line a furnace.
Using Fettle
- The main meaning on this page is: A state of physical condition; kilter or trim. | One's mental state; spirits. | Sand used to line a furnace.
- Useful related words include: fitness, physical fitness, good shape, good condition.
- In the example corpus, fettle often appears in combinations such as: fine fettle, fettle in.
Context around Fettle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fettle
- In this selection, "fettle" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fine, better and finer stand out and add context to how "fettle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in better fettle than we and in fine fettle. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fettle" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fettle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He’d suffered health problems for two decades, including three heart attacks, but lately seemed in fine fettle. (18 words)
He said: “It was lovely to visit the Music Hall (for my Granite Noir event) and see it in such fine fettle. (22 words)
John Souttar has been in fine fettle in recent weeks for club and country and he's produced some seriously good defending this afternoon. (24 words)
So it is not as though all PSUs are in fine fettle with modest debt-equity ratios as the DEA secretary Garg makes it out to be; many of them don’t have the scope to borrow but are rated AAA simply because they are backed by the sovereign. (49 words)
Physically, she looks in better fettle than we have seen her for a while – a riposte to the theory that your physical conditioning declines in the late 30s. (28 words)
Not surprisingly, Willett was in finer fettle at the end of a round that, like Rahm’s, was a mix of six birdies and two dropped shots. (27 words)
Example sentences (6)
He’d suffered health problems for two decades, including three heart attacks, but lately seemed in fine fettle.
John Souttar has been in fine fettle in recent weeks for club and country and he's produced some seriously good defending this afternoon.
He said: “It was lovely to visit the Music Hall (for my Granite Noir event) and see it in such fine fettle.
Physically, she looks in better fettle than we have seen her for a while – a riposte to the theory that your physical conditioning declines in the late 30s.
Not surprisingly, Willett was in finer fettle at the end of a round that, like Rahm’s, was a mix of six birdies and two dropped shots.
So it is not as though all PSUs are in fine fettle with modest debt-equity ratios as the DEA secretary Garg makes it out to be; many of them don’t have the scope to borrow but are rated AAA simply because they are backed by the sovereign.
Common combinations with fettle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- fine fettle 5×
- fettle in 2×