Example Sentences

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You wouldn’t know that from the broadcast, but hey, they deservingly cut the Squire some slack.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 24, 2020

Yet no other reference is stronger than the work of Guillermo del Toro, especially “Crimson Peak” and “The Devil’s Backbone,” to which “Tigers” has been deservingly compared.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2019

He deservingly strutted off the mound after unfurling a 92-mile per hour slider that darted so abruptly it froze second baseman Ozzie Albies.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2018

But many millennials see him as long-irrelevant figure, and the #MeToo era has cast him as someone who was deservingly vanquished, like so many other misbehaving men in power.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2018

Grim enough; of lean, almost cruel aspect: for he has been in trouble, in ill health; also in ill favour, as a man promoted, deservingly or not, by the Terrorists and Robespierre Junior.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas