fit a description

One man alone, though he fits a description perfectly, may still not be the man described.

It more fits a description of a cyclops."

The agate cup, without the base, fits a description by Saint Jerome.

The charge is suspicion of armed robbery, fitting a description of wearing a brown coat.

In the 10 days after the widely publicized slaying, the police arrested four men who fit a description of the gunman as black and bald.

"They approach you like you're a criminal, saying you fit a description, and then never apologize when they don't find anything."

They said Mr. Sumpter fit a description of a robbery suspect.

He fits a description.

He could have been any man from any unit in the motel, of course, except that he fit a description I'd recently memorized.

It belonged to Rupert Suffolk, fitting a description given by The Shadow.

Mr. Babel fit a description of the gunman provided by witnesses on the train, Mr. Shargel said.

They have a suspect, a Beatnik called Arthur Jester who fits a description of 'The Aspirin Kid' but his alibi checks out.

Sorry, he'd say, but you fit a description we got from - whomever he might conveniently blame,- maybe the French or Italians - and one cannot be too careful with international air travel.

Officials were still searching for the attacker, who partly fit a description of the man believed responsible for four stabbings in the park in June: a black man in his 40's, 6 foot 1, 185 pounds.

Marilyn Mode, the chief spokeswoman for the Police Department, apologized to Mr. White and to the three others on Friday night, but said they had fit a description of the drug dealers given by a resident.

The actor, Alton Fitzgerald White, and three other plaintiffs, all of whom are black, allege that police officers stopped them solely on the basis of of their race, even though they did not fit a description of drug suspects.

After the mortar blast, it took two days for Mr. Dzirlo to trace his friend, telephoning police stations and morgues until officials at the old military hospital a mile away said a body fitting a description of the old man had been brought in.

Marilyn Mode, a Police Department spokeswoman, apologized for the inconvenience, but said that Mr. White had fit a description given by a resident, who reported that four Hispanic men wearing white T-shirts and brandishing guns had run into the lobby.

Today, officials believe, Times Square would profit most from its reincarnation as a jumbled, energetic patchwork of small buildings topped by big signs and filled with stores, restaurants, theaters, amusements and nightspots - in other words, fitting a description that might have been written 50 years ago.