fair shake
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Raymond J. Williams, the board's executive secretary, told a reporter, "We tried to give the guy [Arnold] a fair shake.""
- ""America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake.""
- "The average citizen in the republic wants to go to bed at night and feel that Catholics in Northern Ireland are receiving a fair shake."
- "A vast network of fathers’ groups, labour lawyers, bloggers and social advocates rallied to his cause, forcing a national conversation about whether caregiving fathers were getting a fair shake."
- "“You feel like you’re the underdog and you don’t get a fair shake, so you look for people that are going to shake it up,” she said of the local support for Mr. Trump’s dispute of the election results."