Example sentences for: deem

How can you use “deem” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 13 General Anthony Zinni, the commander of Central Command (CENTCOM), was designated as the President's special envoy and sent to ask General Musharraf to "take whatever action you deem necessary to resolve the Bin Laden problem at the earliest possible time."

  • Appreciations deem the nine-season-old show the best of its era and a trenchant critique of late-20 th -century social mores.

  • Reviewers deem most vapid the heavy-handed exchanges about the meaning of life between Jodie Foster's obsessed scientist and Matthew McConaughey's New Agey priest.

  • In the CIDE the effort has been made to simplify such entries in limiting the number of senses dealt with by writing a few definitions--fifteen, in the case of take --that are intended to encompass semantically the basic range of meanings the editors deem to be required by typical users of the dictionary.

  • But when she's on, Byatt's writing "leaps and pirouettes, shimmies and shivers" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ) and has an "aura of extravagant ingenuity" (David Barber, the Boston Globe ). A few find the tales a bit too similar--there is a theme throughout of the conflict between the warm southern temperament and the cold northern one--but most deem the sameness unimportant when the writing is so superb.


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