How to Use fix it in a Sentence
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The old maxim applies; if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it!
— Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 -
The only way to fix it is through legislation, congressional action.
— Abc News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024 -
Don’t run the risk of damaging the leather further by trying to fix it—cleaning leather is a DIY job, but repairing it is not.
— Michael Y. Park, Architectural Digest, 1 Oct. 2024 -
While everyone around her is losing their heads, her Taverner can look directly into the roiling abyss and calculate a way, if not to fix it, then certainly to cover it up.
— Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024 -
But the politicians don’t have the will or courage to fix it.
— George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024 -
So if the league’s not broken, there’s no need to fix it.
— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023 -
But with no funds to fix it, the school remained open for years.
— Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023 -
Their paths cross when Paris wrecks her mom’s car and doesn’t have the money to fix it.
— refinery29.com, 1 June 2023 -
One of the first rules of TV is: if something’s working, don’t fix it.
— Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023 -
Here is how to identify what is wrong and how to fix it.
— Michael Snyder Pedro Kok, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 -
And there is no question that Congress needs to fix it.
— Nbc Universal, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2024 -
Stimulus from Congress and the Fed was too small to fix it.
— Dylan Matthews, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024 -
Lauren Goode: Or maybe AI is going to fix it all for us.
— Michael Calore, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023 -
But Kang wouldn’t give her good corrections on how to fix it.
— Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024 -
Politicians don’t have the guts to fix it because there’d be losers as well as winners.
— George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024 -
My first instinct was to rush to fix it—email the parents, call the school, demand action.
— Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2024 -
In other words, the business model is broken, and no one seems to have a clear idea of how to fix it.
— Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023 -
There was a malfunction at the house security gate, and Don got out of the car to fix it.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023 -
But that will depend on what went wrong, what might be needed to fix it and when the FAA grants a new launch license.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 12 July 2024 -
Crews worked before the games to fix it, and a contractor’s level showed that the rim was indeed flat.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023 -
Nobody can tell you how to fix it, because it can’t be fixed, only lived through.
— Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024 -
The hope is that this extreme recoil is a bug and that the dev team will fix it up within the next few hours to make these weapons usable.
— Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 -
The cost to fix it: $1,400. Advertisement Myra turned to Neuty.
— Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Simply, if nothing breaks, there's no need to fix it or raise tickets.
— Akhilesh Tripathi, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024 -
The family snagged an old scoreboard from a city rink, and asked a friend who is an electrician to fix it.
— Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024 -
Everyone had an opinion, most of which boiled down to: The current system is flawed, time to fix it.
— Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023 -
If there is a hole or tear in your hose, use a water hose repair kit to fix it, or buy a new hose entirely.
— Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023 -
The pumping mechanism is broken and the couple can’t find anyone to fix it.
— Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2023 -
The only downside is that Amazon now runs ads on its Echo Show devices, but there's a hack to somewhat fix it.
— Parker Hall, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Afterward, pollsters examined what went wrong and set out to fix it.
— David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
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