fare
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Synonyms for fare
Synonyms: Verb
cope, do, get along, get by, get on, make out, manage, shift
Synonyms: Noun
bread, chow, chuck [chiefly West], comestibles, eatables, eats, edibles, food, foodstuffs, grub, meat, provender, provisions, table, tucker [chiefly Australian], viands, victuals, vittles
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Examples of fare in a Sentence
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The Mystery Maid, a halibut and black cod schooner, had fared badly of late and was in the process of being overhauled. — David Guterson, Snow Falling On Cedars, 1994 … genuinely new creations do not usually fare well with mainstream publishers in any age. — Erica Jong, New York Times Book Review, 5 June 1988 Back upstairs, I put on a gold lamé dress and fared forth to the first big dinner of 1968 … — Lady Bird Johnson 25 Jan. 1968, in A White House Diary, 1970 residents of the flood-ravaged town are faring much better than one might have expected families can be seen faring along the road to the campground while driving or towing all manner of conveyanceNoun
Bush and Siberry's sixth albums find them trying harder than before to reach an audience less willing to indulge their wanderings—both albums communicate more directly, and sound more familiar, than their usual fairy-tale fare. — Ann Powers, Village Voice, 7 Dec. 1993 Who would ever consider robbing this place for more than getaway bus fare? — Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife, 1991 As for Ronald Reagan, solid heartland fare like macaroni and cheese and hamburger soup is his favorite … — Guy D. Garcia, Time, 14 Mar. 1988 I need some coins for the bus fare. The taxi driver picked up his fares at the airport. Less expensive fare is available at the restaurant across the street.
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Here’s a ranking of how 10 of the most prominent ones fared. 1. — Joel Boyd, chicagotribune.com, "College football Week 1 wrap-up: Jalen Hurts tops our ranking of the transfer QB debuts. And is this the year running backs retake the Heisman race?," 1 Sep. 2019 If the frogs fare well, experts plan to breed them. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "The Last 14 Loa Water Frogs Had to Be Rescued From Their Natural Habitat," 31 Aug. 2019 Triple-option teams don’t tend to fare as well in season openers, which allow opponents to prepare longer than just a few days. — Christopher Smith, al, "Week 1 SEC football betting preview," 31 Aug. 2019 Here's how the sides fared in their last five matches. — SI.com, "Cagliari vs Inter Preview: Where to Watch, Buy Tickets, Live Stream, Kick Off Time & Team News," 29 Aug. 2019 Click through the photos above to see how Houston-area school districts fared in the latest TEA report. — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, "How Houston-area school districts fared in the TEA's latest accountability report," 27 Aug. 2019 As for other special-teams notes, Mitch Wishnowsky saved his biggest hit for a third-quarter punt that sailed 62 yards, Robbie Gould made both his field-goal attempts, and veteran linebackers David Mayo and Mark Nzeocha fared well on coverage units. — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, "49ers 27, Chiefs 17: Top takeways from Garoppolo’s bounce-back game," 24 Aug. 2019 Yet those giant amphipods and other creatures with exoskeletons seem to fare better at depths. — Eva Botkin-kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, "NASA eyes the ocean: How the deep sea could unlock outer space," 23 Aug. 2019 Universities lower down the pecking order have fared less well. — The Economist, "The winners and losers of England’s great university free-for-all," 22 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Its credulity-straining fares — $199 round trip from New York and San Francisco — were key elements of a tourism bonanza that lifted Iceland from its catastrophic 2008 financial crisis. — New York Times, "Iceland’s Purple Planes Are Grounded, and With Them, Its Economy," 25 Aug. 2019 But Star Wars will try to draw fans into their new television fare by returning to a fan favorite character. — Eliana Dockterman, Time, "May the Force Be With the Small Screen: An Obi-Wan Kenobi TV Show Is Happening," 24 Aug. 2019 Dunkelhansa This German airline is popular for its cheap flights to Europe and keeps its fares low by hiring philosophy grad students as flight attendants. — Jiji Lee, The New Yorker, "New Budget Airlines," 23 Aug. 2019 The two best teams in the East are skilled and enormous, which gives their games against one another a slightly different texture from your typical NBA fare. — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, "Breaking Down the Top 20 Games of the 2019-20 NBA Season," 12 Aug. 2019 Translation: Lyft is raising fares for riders and believes the rest of the industry (read: Uber) is doing so too. — Alison Griswold, Quartz, "Lyft finally sees a path to profitability: raising prices," 9 Aug. 2019 Both companies recently began to raise fares around the U.S., which is a main battleground accounting for almost all of Lyft’s sales. — Eric Newcomer, Los Angeles Times, "Lyft exceeds estimates, forecasts shrinking losses for the year," 7 Aug. 2019 Since Germany is an exporting economy, the weaker the Euro, the better its economy fares. — Cheikh Ahmed Bamba Diagne, Quartz Africa, "How Francophone Africa’s France-backed CFA franc works and why it’s controversial," 2 Aug. 2019 Founder Dino DiPaolo and his wife Jeannene established a menu of pizza, sandwiches and pasta that has gone largely unchanged (save for the addition of some Mexican fare at lunchtime) through 11 presidential administrations. — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, "West Colfax staple Dino’s Italian Food will serve its last lasagna Sept. 30," 3 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fare.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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