Words similar to deserved

Example sentences for: deserved

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

Then Ted decided the children deserved a chance to start over in another town, no matter how difficult it might prove to be.
Another letter in the same newspaper said Clinton deserved "a pat on the back" for his visit to Africa, which, it explained, ought to help "refocus world opinion, and especially that of corporate America, on Africa as a paradise for investment."
The soap opera that begat Java deserved to be written as a novel.
If ever bad guys deserved to be executed, it's the bad guys in 8MM . They promise they're going to torture and kill the hero's wife and baby daughter, they cast aspersions on his masculinity, they sneer at the notion that anyone would care about their victims.
In Why We Can't Wait , published in 1963 as the movement to dismantle segregation reached its peak, King observed that many white supporters of civil rights "recoil in horror" from suggestions that blacks deserved not merely colorblind equality but "compensatory consideration."