Deserve

//dɪˈzɜːv//

"Deserve" in a Sentence (21 examples)

You deserve the prize.

You deserve to succeed.

You're always lying- that's why people don't take you seriously. You get what you deserve.

The honor is more than I deserve.

I haven't bought a pair of shoes for six months; I deserve a new pair so I think I'll go buy them!

A son who could not learn to paddle his own canoe does not deserve to inherit his father's fortune.

The general said to the brave man, "You deserve a medal."

The honor you are giving me is more than I deserve.

People who are made much of by the public are not always those who most deserve it.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

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After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.

After what he did, he deserved to go to prison.

We don't think your article deserves reading.

God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

John Gay deserved to be a favourite.

the grantees named in the questioned deed executed by their father richly deserved receiving the family home.

Perhaps they do, but they don't deserve that the rest of us contribute money or appropriate public funds for the purchase of pictures and the construction of buildings.

That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue, / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.

Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte

Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call; / I may command at most. Get weapons, ho! / And raise some special officers of night. / On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.

c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman A man that hath / So well deserved me.

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