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Example sentences for "fiat"

Lexicographically close words:
fiamma; fiance; fiancee; fiant; fiasco; fibbing; fiber; fibered; fibers; fibre
  1. The Yanks were hustled out to the runways and loaded into a shaky and battered Fiat 20, two-engine bomber.

  2. O'Malley and Allison both hauled back and the Fiat wobbled and staggered as she started to lift.

  3. No Fiat iver got to land on Malta under her own power.

  4. Fine," Stan said and opened the old Fiat up a bit more.

  5. Sliding into the seat Stan began to fight the old Fiat to get her out of a spin.

  6. The Fiat gave up the ghost halfway across the field.

  7. The Fiat had started to billow smoke out of the tail compartment where an incendiary shell had lodged.

  8. He figured O'Malley would fold up the Fiat like an old accordion when he started to pull her out of the dive.

  9. He nosed the Fiat over and sent her down the chute in a screaming dive that threatened to pull the wings off her.

  10. We make the world to our will, and 'add our fiat to the fiat of the creator.

  11. This is against the fiat of nature and a violation of her sovereignty and dominion.

  12. The kingdoms of the mineral, vegetable and animal respond to nature’s will and fiat of control.

  13. Under ordinary circumstances the Jewish Sanhedrin could not put a man to death unless they had received the fiat of the Roman authorities.

  14. Now, however, during this interval, there was no supreme authority from whom this fiat could be secured, and so they seized the opportunity and executed Stephen as a blasphemer, according to the method prescribed in the law of Moses.

  15. I tell thee I have the fiat of the praetor.

  16. Ay, to-morrow's sun the fiat of his death will go forth.

  17. In spite of all this, however, the zeal for the fiat or non-promissory theory and practice of paper money almost totally died away after about 1880.

  18. Such popularity of the greenbacks stimulated to fresh life the "fiat greenback" theory, long in vogue and very influential in many parts of the country.

  19. Does the iron fiat of the constitution doom it to such imbecility that it cannot arrest the process that made them "enemies," and still goads to deadlier hate by fiery trials, and day by day adds others to their number?

  20. Creation is the spoken word of God; the creative, cosmogonic fiat is the tacit word, identical with the thought.

  21. By the mere fiat of his will he created a judicial chamber, whose decisions were to override those of any other court of law in the Netherlands, and which was to be responsible to none, not even to the Council of State.

  22. Was space furnished at once, by the fiat of Omnipotence, with these burning orbs?

  23. Powers governed by the absolute force or fiat of omnipotence would in that fact be uncreate and cease.

  24. All the conception we can possibly form of Creation is "merely as the evolution of new forms of existence by the fiat of the Deity.

  25. We speak of God's fiat "Fiat lux, Let light be.

  26. No one can escape the eternal fiat of Jehovah, "dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.

  27. Jewish or German Freys do business in the great Cesspool of Agio; which Cesspool this Assignat-fiat has quickened, into a Mother of dead dogs.

  28. The voice of these, once announcing itself, carries fiat and pereat in it, for all things here below.

  29. But where, save in the fiat of an infinite Deity, is the power that can make this universe of death teem again with life and beauty?

  30. We know, also that there was a time when this world did not exist, an epoch when its entire mass was spoken into existence by the fiat of Jehovah; because the Bible expressly declares it.

  31. But let the fiat of the Almighty go forth for their liberation, and the scenes of the last day, as described in the Bible, will commence.

  32. For if there were no interval between the fiat that called matter into existence, and that which said, Let there be light, why should such a description of the earth's waste and desolate condition be given?

  33. Graphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a fiat surface of natural objects; as distinguished from music, etc.

  34. Fiat money, irredeemable paper currency, not resting on a specie basis, but deriving its purchasing power from the declaratory fiat of the government issuing it.

  35. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.

  36. Defn: A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.

  37. I cannot think what Mahomet was about when he pronounced his fiat against them, as unclean.

  38. Compare this great passage where George Fox describes his conversion with Paul's account of the spiritual fiat lux in 2 Cor.

  39. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness [the first fiat lux] hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  40. Sidenote: Fiat money and the resumption of specie payments.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fiat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appointment; authority; authorization; brevet; bull; certification; clearance; countenance; declaration; decree; dictate; dictum; edict; endorsement; fiat; law; mandate; order; ordinance; precept; proclamation; pronouncement; ratification; regulation; rescript; rule; ruling; sanction; ukase; warrant; warranty