DESERVE in a Sentence
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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.
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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Meanings and Examples of DESERVE
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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.
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.
3 But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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.
5 They shall prove that, as far as you can be deserved by anybody, I do deserve you.
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.
7 She might love, but she did not deserve Edmund by any other sentiment.
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.
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.
10 'He would deserve to have it knocked off, if he does,' said Mr. Brownlow.
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
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
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"
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
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
15 I deserve to be kicked from here to Charing Cross.
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.