Example sentences for: deserving

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

  • And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.

  • But the farmers have succeeded in portraying themselves as innocent victims deserving to be made whole by the settlement.

  • Dickie worked so hard and such long hours that his hands were forever stained with printer's ink--and if that didn't make Dickie Flatt and Ordinary Americans like him deserving of a massive tax cut, well, tarnation.

  • As any semiconscious economics student could tell you, a higher rate would not signal that the loan in question is more deserving than another, but rather, the opposite: that investors are being compensated for extra risk, leaving the marginal lender indifferent among the alternatives.

  • Blacks, given their long "siege of denial," were even more deserving than soldiers of "special, compensatory measures."


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