English example sentences with "befitting"

Modesty is befitting to a young girl.

Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions.

With nary a single Michelin star to its name, and an exterior facade befitting a local hardware store, Chef Ian Boden's "The Shack" is nonetheless packed with customers, some of whom drove hours to get there.

In ways befitting an intellectual luminary, for Mr. Jackson was awarded the prestigious, $25 million MacArthur "genius" grant, he takes the conversation in a hundred directions, not all of which the uninitiated listener can follow.

He spoke with eloquence befitting a king.