How to Use fair-weather in a Sentence

fair-weather

adjective
  • Please come back my fair-weather friends.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
  • All the fair-weather friends who hung around her business are gone, and her kids and grandkids have floated away.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • All the fair-weather friends who hung around her business are gone, and her kids and grandkids have floated away.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Ladies’ first big blowup concerns a rumor that an old fair-weather friend of Myka’s is a madam.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The fair-weather waterspout forms over water.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Currently, the drone’s fuel cell is a fair-weather flier.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Forget fair-weather friends; consider this your best cold-weather friend, all winter long.
    — Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There were the longtime Democratic allies who became fair-weather friends.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • Rising ticket prices in the Premier League era had been squeezing out traditional fans and their seats had been taken by an upper-crust, fair-weather fanbase.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But although the president may be losing these fair-weather friends, the much-larger MAGA movement remains firmly in his corner.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Waterspouts occur as tornadic waterspouts or fair-weather waterspouts, NOAA explained.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Waterspouts occur as tornadic waterspouts or fair-weather waterspouts, NOAA explained.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Today, 14 years after that promise (and many subsequent ones by Elon Musk), fully autonomous vehicles remain a limited experiment, available in only a small number of fair-weather cities.
    — Gary Marcus, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The only way to get there is via the avalanche-prone State Route 88 between Carson Pass and the Carson Spur, which deters fair-weather visitors and keeps liftlines manageable or even non-existent.
    — Drew Zieff, Outside, 21 Nov. 2025
  • What those 15,000 or so fair-weather fans missed was the Broncos (4-2, 2-0) asserting themselves in the fourth quarter to pull away for a 41-25 Mountain West win over the Lobos (3-3, 0-2), who for much of the night were like a gnat the home team couldn’t swat away.
    — Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The hardtop GranTurismo became an iconic character in the hit Apple TV streamer Your Friends and Neighbors (no spoilers here); the GranCabrio, which is an additional $8,900, delivers more of a fair-weather experience, though the nicely muted top makes for a quiet ride (for a convertible).
    — Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025

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