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How to use fair-weather in a sentence

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Some described false confidence as the ultimate fair-weather friend, buoying you when times are good and deserting you when they're bad.
The regime was pilloried as a fair-weather friend in the wake of that event.
Even several thousand years ago government figures were known to be fair-weather friends who exploited their friendship for personal advantage.
He said till such time as the metalled road was constructed, a fair-weather communication link be ensured.
The best way to defend democracy is to spread democracy, not suppress it in the interests of fair-weather friends.
The fact that he can say that tonight suggests that, actually, he is a fair-weather friend.
The fair-weather friends have evidently evaporated into thin air, effectively abandoning him and vilifying his illustrious name.
Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.
Highs are generally fair-weather systems hundreds or even thousands of kilometres across.
Again, this is not a provision for fair-weather Canadians who then want to seek the protection of Canada.
This entails letting go, lightly, of fair-weather friendships that no longer serve you.
Following my bizarre interaction with a patch on the back of some kid's jean jacket, I acted as a fair-weather fan.
The morning was thus quite agreeable, and the conscientious ice cream vendor would have been out hitting the streets and taking advantage of those fair-weather revelers.
Surely, he asked, I wasn't a fair-weather fan?
Republicans appear to be fair-weather fans as well.
In closing, I am reminded of what Thomas Paine once said when he was writing at the time of the American Revolution and so-called fair-weather friends.
I went to the football game and stayed for the entire game, not like you fair-weather friends who left after it became clear we were getting killed.
He saw no reason not to make enemies of such fair-weather friends.
Nine years of extravagance, fair-weather friends, a stock market crash, a paternity suit and a devastating gambling addiction have left the 38-year-old man nearly penniless.
Whilst someone may be revealed as being a fair-weather friend, in the weeks to come a tie with another pal, can go from strength to strength.
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As she said of herself a few years later, she was not a fair-weather friend.
Blow me taught, but thourt a fair-weather fellow, too, to overhaul the Dons shiners!
You have it strong in your head then, and you know 'tis not all fair-weather work!
But I do not know, after all, 244 she continued, that I like fair-weather friends.
I am assured, at least, that in you I have but a fair-weather friend, a poor lipserver.
Could they drive a wedge between us by showing that we were a fair-weather friend whom any stress would alienate.
Since then, long experience had convinced him that this clumsy human bear was no fair-weather friend.
She is a fair-weather friend, and shrinks with the most charming frankness from those on whom dark days have fallen.
Now all was well once more and Mrs. Ward, who had been no fair-weather friend to Italy, rejoiced with all her heart.
She was not a fair-weather friend, and since Jennie was good enough to offer her a home she felt she ought to go at once.
Almost every big label band is wimpy sissy stuff made for creeps that are here-to-day-gone-tomorrow, fair-weather friends.
I want no fair-weather birds holding down my office chairs or anything else.
If your fair-weather plans go away in Britain, then you're well-placed for a host of exciting indoor entertainment.
The engraving on the preceding page, shows a phase of these fair-weather summer cumuli.
Simeon is poor in friendshe only had one besides his wife, and that one is a fair-weather friend.
But experts said politicians, of all people, should be accustomed to having fair-weather friends.
It is a fair-weather sign, whether upon the sea or upon the land.
Some of the time the weather is feeling quite warm now and fair-weather gardeners like myself are taking an interest in things like the state of the strawberry beds.
We have our ponchos, and we are not fair-weather explorers.exclaimed Ned, shaking his poncho and getting rid of some of the water that had settled on it.
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