Sample Sentences for
fidelity
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

fidelity as in:  fidelity to her partner

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Their marriage has strengthened on mutual trust and fidelity over twenty years.
fidelity = faithfulness
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    They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boasted they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents, they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.  (source)
    fidelity = faithfulness or trustworthiness
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    Get out of here. Lady Stark wants to speak to me in private. Might be she has designs on my fidelity, heh.  (source)
    fidelity = sexual faithfulness to a spouse or partner
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    But it was only decent, and now I was a cheater, and I couldn't ruin my record of fidelity on something merely average.  (source)
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    It annoyed Augustus that the pigs had shown so little fidelity; when he came to the camp and noticed the shoat sleeping right beside Po Campo's workplace, he was apt to make tart remarks.  (source)
    fidelity = faithfulness
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    all my life-long fidelities?†  (source)
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    And so, along paths bordered by tender regard, by total fidelity, they began to go their semi-separate ways-his a public route, a march of satisfying conquests, and hers a private one that eventually wound through hospital corridors.  (source)
    fidelity = faithfulness to each other
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    For what care the ambassadors of Satan, for all the small fidelities of the letter and the word, if from the singing choir of earthly methodism we can steal a single heart—lift up, flame-tipped, one great lost soul to the high sinfulness of poetry?†  (source)
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    Vivaldo was unlike everyone else that he knew in that they, all the others, could only astonish him by kindness or fidelity; it was only Vivaldo who had the power to astonish him by treachery.  (source)
    fidelity = faithfulness or trustworthiness
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    She also belonged to the minority within the minority who were not interested in marriage or fidelity or cosy evenings at home.  (source)
    fidelity = faithfulness of a spouse or partner
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    Drunk one night, they got matching tattoos, each proclaiming their fidelity to the corps.  (source)
    fidelity = faithfulness
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    The general hopes this important event will serve as a fresh incentive to every officer and soldier to act with fidelity and courage, [the orders read] as knowing that now the peace and safety of his country depends (under God) solely on the success of our arms: And that he is now in the service of a state possessed of sufficient power to reward his merit, and advance him to the highest honors of a free country.  (source)
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    A man who in life has put so much stock in "heart"—in loyalty and trust, in courage and fidelity, in having a true heart—can only die by a blow to the heart.  (source)
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    A laotong relationship is made by choice for the purpose of emotional companionship and eternal fidelity.  (source)
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fidelity as in:  fidelity of the reproduction

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    That opening is scientifically and mathematically positioned by a factory-trained technician to enhance the TT AB-700's true high-fidelity sound!  (source)
    fidelity = accurate in reproduction
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    A military surgeon would have admired the clinical fidelity of the artist's rendition of all Christ's wounds-the spear wound, the thorn wounds, the holes that were made by the iron spikes.  (source)
    fidelity = accuracy
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    Clearly, his computer has just taken a major hit; all of its circuits are busy processing a huge bolus of data-the contents of the hypercard-and don't have time to redraw the image of The Black Sun in its full, breathtaking fidelity.  (source)
    fidelity = accuracy in reproduction
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    Sometimes, unconsciously, Daugherty expressed it, with more fidelity to exactness, 'a great-looking President.'  (source)
    fidelity = faithfulness (to accuracy)
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    To Strasser, someone who was Japanese simply could not play with any soul or fidelity music that was composed by a European.  (source)
    fidelity = accuracy to the spirit or sound
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    While the Korbs' neighbors include Stephen Roosevelt, FDR's grandson, and Edward "Ned" Johnson, chairman and, with his family, majority owner of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, Donald is part of the new wealth on the block.  (source)
    Fidelity = company name
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    He claimed to have deposited one package of dismembered cadaver in the Fidelity Storage Warehouse in Chicago.  (source)
    Fidelity = name of a company
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    Just before leaving Chicago Holmes acquired a life insurance policy, from the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia, to insure Pitezel's life for $10,000.  (source)
    Fidelity = name of a company (based on the concept of being trustworthy)
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    In Philadelphia Holmes had swindled the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of nearly $10,000 by apparently faking the death of a policyholder, Ben Pitezel.  (source)
    Fidelity = name of a company
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    Holmes had bought the insurance in 1893 from Fidelity's Chicago office, just before the close of the exposition.  (source)
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    As evidence of fraud accumulated, Fidelity had hired the Pinkerton National Detective Agency—"The Eye That Never Sleeps"—to search for Holmes.  (source)
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    Fidelity paid the death benefit.  (source)
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    On Wednesday evening, August 7, with temperatures in the nineties and traincars like ovens, Geyer set out again, this time accompanied by Fidelity Mutual's top insurance investigator, Inspector W. E. Gary.  (source)
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    Only two witnesses presented evidence, L. G. Fouse, president of Fidelity Mutual Life, and Detective Frank Geyer.  (source)
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