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How to use fairway in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Fairway means the area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short. Example: “Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.”

Examples of fairway by meaning

nounA navigable channel in a harbour, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places.

  • A clear fairway of 95 ft. width also is provided.1960 June, “New Lifting Bridge at Kings Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 388

More sentences with fairway

  • Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.From the entry pure
  • The ball scooted off the fairway and sat down in the thick rough.From the entry sit down
  • The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green.2002, Peter Krause, Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, page 55. From the entry hot
  • Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success, page 81. From the entry fat
  • Th' fairways are a' rough an' full' o' holes an' th' rough is a haggy wilderness.1923, The Judge, page 14. From the entry haggy
  • So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356. From the entry landslide
  • There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry green
  • The course should use a minimal amount of fairway area, rather than being completely turfed from tee box to green.1988, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Preservation of petroglyphs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, page 225. From the entry turfed
  • If a player uses, say, 10 inches of string to move from rough to fairway, those 10 inches are then cut from her allotment and disposed of.1997, National Golf Foundation, Tournaments and Events: Organization and Management, page 67. From the entry string
  • "That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway.1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves. From the entry perambulator

Meaning of fairway

  1. noun The area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.
  2. noun Any tract of land free from obstacles.
  3. noun A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6).

Full definition of fairway

Questions about fairway in a sentence

How do you use fairway in a sentence?
Fairway is used as a noun. For example: “Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.”
What is a short sentence with fairway?
“A clear fairway of 95 ft. width also is provided.”
What does fairway mean?
Fairway means the area between the tee and the green, where the grass is cut short.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fairway (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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