DESERVE in a Sentence

Learn DESERVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
242 example sentences for DESERVE, such as:
1. Maybe I don't deserve you.
2. None but the brave deserve the fair.
3. You deserve credit for the feeling, Mother.
4. I deserve to be kicked from here to Charing Cross.
5. I have for you cry, from now on you do not deserve my smile.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DESERVE
deserve
 v.  be worthy or deserving
Classic Sentence: (195 in 14 pages)
1  Amen," said the Grand Master, with solemnity, "but we must deserve his aid.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  If you won't have it, I'll send it to the Duchess as well as the pictures, and she doesn't deserve so much.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  She would endeavour to be rational, and to deserve the right of judging of Miss Crawford's character, and the privilege of true solicitude for him by a sound intellect and an honest heart.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  They shall prove that, as far as you can be deserved by anybody, I do deserve you.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  By that right I do and will deserve you; and when once convinced that my attachment is what I declare it, I know you too well not to entertain the warmest hopes.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  She might love, but she did not deserve Edmund by any other sentiment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  She had probably alienated love by the helplessness and fretfulness of a fearful temper, or been unreasonable in wanting a larger share than any one among so many could deserve.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  This is my modest request and expectation, for you are so good, that I depend upon being treated better than I deserve, and I write now to beg an immediate answer.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  'He would deserve to have it knocked off, if he does,' said Mr. Brownlow.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  She hasn't disgraced herself, or done anything to deserve that.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
12  You deserve credit for the feeling, Mother.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
13  It is hard, when you have done nothing to deserve it, that you should have got involved in such a web as this.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
14  You do not deserve what you have got, Eustacia; you are in great misery; I see it in your eyes, your mouth, and all over you.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
15  I deserve to be kicked from here to Charing Cross.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  His reputation lends a certain validity to the approach that it might not deserve.
2  You should treat those remarks with the contempt that they deserve.
3  Those who work deserve to eat; those who do not work deserve to starve.
4  Government officials clearly deserve some of the blame as well.
5  I don't deserve to be made the scapegoat for a couple of bad results.
6  Everybody needs love,especially for those who don't deserve it.
7  Those who deny freedom to others hardly deserve it for themselves.
8  Maybe I don't deserve you.
9  None but the brave deserve the fair.
10  I have for you cry, from now on you do not deserve my smile.
11  Those who seek to grab power through violence deserve punishment.
12  The proposals that you have put forward deserve serious consideration.
13  I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.
14  The publishers say they are not cashing in, just treating the emergency services with the respect they deserve.
15  What I find peculiar is the notion “fundamentalists” need or deserve to be criticized.