Example sentences for: deserved

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

  • Sportswriters exulted that Lewis finally got what he deserved . But skeptics said that scoring discrepancies revealed "something less than a definitive way of judging a bout."

  • More than three decades later I readily recall my opinions about both at the time, opinions that have changed little over the years: there was no doubt that the MWIII deserved criticism, but those benighted, self-appointed guardians of the language who were heaping vituperative imprecations on the Dictionary (and its editors) were criticizing it for the wrong things.

  • No one deserved to beat Armstrong this year," said the second-place cyclist, Alex Zuelle.

  • It is also true that while Ben's mother certainly deserved to share in his father's largess, Ben and any other siblings were merely members of the "lucky sperm club."

  • The view I have heard, not exactly a political program, more like an ethnic slur, is that (fill in the blank) Eastern European ethnic group deserved whatever the Soviets dished out because they were anti-Semitic Hitler-friendly thugs.


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