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Example sentences for: deserved

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

No one deserved to beat Armstrong this year," said the second-place cyclist, Alex Zuelle.
A lot of the newspapers that folded were rotten and deserved to die, a sentiment that many left-wing press critics will endorse.
The portrait may well be accurate--Naipaul is not a writer with a reputation for warmheartedness--but all that can be concluded from the exercise is that, at best, one monster deserved the other.
He has an enthusiastic supporter in the conservative Daily Telegraph of London, which said in an editorial Thursday that he deserved "the thanks of democrats throughout the world" for his stand on the decommissioning issue.
I'm more conflicted about my high-school writing teacher, who announced that his lessons were so valuable that he deserved 10 percent of the profits from our first books.