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How to use fa in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun

Fa means a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale. Example: “The building had a perfectly symmetrical façade.”

More sentences with fa

  • The building had a perfectly symmetrical façade.From the entry symmetrical
  • Similarily, the femosphere possesses intellectual mouthpieces who cloak reactionary perspectives with an intellectual and scientific façade.2025, Cécile Smmons, CTRL HATE DELETE: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It, unnumbered page. From the entry femosphere
  • The white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally.2023 December 13, Robin Leleux, “Restored... and a richly deserved award: Findlater's Corner”, in RAIL, number 998, page 43. From the entry impervious
  • The façade and interior are covered entirely in İznik tiles arrayed in a distinctive circular pattern.2012, Turkey (Berlitz Pocket Guides), Apa Publications, →ISBN. From the entry İznik
  • Façadism, with its emphasis on show and its disregard for authenticity, is very much a postmodern approach.2008, John Pendlebury, Conservation in the Age of Consensus, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry facadism
  • Han Feizi never restricts faˢᵗᵃⁿᵈᵃʳᵈˢ to either sententials or universal sententials.2000, Chad Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, page 349. From the entry sentential
  • Of course, a more experienced UseNetter would only wish to peruse subsets such as "net.all" or "fa.all".1982 January 19, Scott Kramer, “net.micro”, in net.news.group (Usenet). From the entry Usenetter
  • Towers, spires, and façades of Portland stone were white or pink against the dimming sky.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 85. From the entry façade
  • But she façaded her unrest with a determination to improve her mind.1943, Arthur Stringer, Star in a Mist, A Novel, page 180. From the entry facade
  • Façadal orientation toward Jerusalem is demonstrable in several pre-70 synagogues as well, both inside and outside of the land of Israel.2021, Anders Runesson, Wally V[incente] Cirafesi, “Reassessing the Impact of 70 CE on the Origins and Development of Palestinian…. From the entry façadal
  • Her note is F – F in the German naming convention, fa in the solfege system we use in Russia.2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry solfège
  • Kūfa is about the same distance from Mecca as Qaṭar, and thus the tradition does not work in these terms either.2013, Michael Cook, “Why Incline to the Left in Prayer? Sectarianism, Dialectic, and Archaeology in Imāmī Shīʿism”, in Michael Cook, Najam…. From the entry Qaṭar
  • Despite their magic talismans and enchanted weapons, and even with the great powers they possessed, the faëries were eventually conquered.2011, David Andrew Crawford, Dark Solus: An Assassin’s Tale, Strategic Book Group, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry faërie
  • Multi anni fa (many years ago), queers was boiled in water with finocchio, that’s why they are called finocchii today.”1997, Anne Condra, Life in the Mezzogiorno: ‛Mongst Gazing Gargoyles, Messapici Publishing, →ISBN, page 68, →ISBN. From the entry finocchii
  • Moi aussi j’ai chaud, et je possède cette supériorité ou infériorité sur vous que je m’embête d’une façon gigantesque.1953, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Francis Steegmuller, “To Ivan Turgenev”, in The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert (Great Letters…. From the entry unredden
  • Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358. From the entry aesthetic
  • The foist thing is the govnement gung to take away a big bunch money fa texis, you shouldn’t go to jail.1939, The New Yorker, page 22. From the entry foist
  • Death fat individuals may find that smaller fat people are taking up more space in fa(t)shion and are more commonly seen in these blogs.2014, Kala Heekin, "Fat Babes In Crop Tops: Representations Of Gender In Fa(t)shion", Society & Culture Undergraduate Research Forum…. From the entry deathfat
  • Lang time mi wait fa dis.2013, Tom Benn, “Best Served Cold”, in Chamber Music, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry scarecrow
  • Decoration of a plastered façade with simulated regular stonework existed in Florence from the late 13th century, two-tone decorations from the 15th century.2012, Colum P. Hourihane, editor, The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, volume I (Aachen to Cecco di Pietro), Oxford…. From the entry sgraffito
  • Free son et lumière shows, known as Les Clairs de Lune, are projected onto the chateau's façade nightly from July to mid-September.2007, Nicola Williams, et al: France. From the entry son et lumière
  • The exterior façades of the Cordoba mosque are carefully composed, with buttresses interspersed with doorways which reflect the framed arch of the mihrab.1991, Barbara Brend, “Lands of the West: Egypt, North Africa and Spain”, in Islamic Art, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press…. From the entry merlon
  • In his absence, I think, she found herself desolatingly alone, though this was never acknowledged, but covered up by her 'affable' façade.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry desolatingly
  • She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation.1915, Edgar Jepson, “The Reluctant Duke”, in Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company…. From the entry smut
  • Both diners and dinees were waiting for the sun to slip behind the spindling brick façades of Pawn Row, but for now, Melee had the street to herself.2020, Elle Katharine White, “Matriculation”, in Jonathan Strahan, editor, The Book of Dragons: An Anthology, New York, N.Y.: Harper…. From the entry diner
  • There in the road, beneath the gloomy Victorian façades, bare oaks, and sagging telephone lines, two squirrels lay dead, side by side—an apparent hit and run.2014 July 23, Jamie Allen, “Consider the Squirrel”, in Oxford American, number 85. From the entry sciuricide
  • The latter, unburdened by the need to maintain a Hàn Chinese façade, simply (after a period of failed experimentation) abolished the institution of an heir apparent altogether.2012, Sanping Chen, Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry Hàn Chinese
  • Alternating sandstone and limestone (the limestone being used in façades exposed to the winter rains or in more load-bearing areas) created a most pleasing decorative effect.2001, Akram F. Khater, Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920. From the entry load-bearing
  • At the centre of this façade of one story is a porch of two stories with a tall attic and a gable of ogee outline flanked by finials.1905, Charles Herbert Moore, “Chapter 13”, in Character of Renaissance Architecture. From the entry ogee
  • The Granddaughter of France was the real head of the people, and as the faëries had been present at her baptism, obstacles and monsters vanished at her approach.1903, Arvède Barine, translated by Helen E. Meyer, La Grande Mademoiselle, 1627-1652, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The…. From the entry faërie
  • If you believe you are in good shape and find yourself snapping at others with less power than yourself, watch out, as your emotional stability may only be a façade.2010, Gabriela Cora, ExecutiveHealth.com’s Leading Under Pressure: Strategies to Avoid Burnout, Increase Energy, and Improve Your…. From the entry Cruella
  • At Wollaton, Smythson moved the hall back from the façade, creating a string of forespaces to mediate between a fashionable central doorway and the customary off-center entrance to the screens.2007, Lena Cowen Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London. From the entry forespace
  • The gatehouse survives still as a witness to this grandeur: with its Dholpur sandstone façade, its delicate jharokha balconies and its fine fish-tail mouldings it is still a magnificent sight.1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin, published 2004, page 56. From the entry jharokha

Meaning of fa

  1. noun A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
  2. noun Sometimes syllable for both the tonic and the fourth.

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Questions about fa in a sentence

How do you use fa in a sentence?
Fa is used as a noun. For example: “The building had a perfectly symmetrical façade.”
What is a short sentence with fa?
“Lang time mi wait fa dis.”
What does fa mean?
Fa means a syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.

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