Example Sentences

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Until this spring, no bird had deigned to nest in the Chalet.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2022

Of the two scanners that the Board of Elections had deigned to make available, only one was functional; the other had gone on the fritz before seven in the morning.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2018

Some dog owners had deigned to bag up the offending substance, but found it beyond their powers to carry the baggie to a trash receptacle.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2015

After the draw with Poland in 1973, Ramsey lingered for six months while England's absence for the first time from a World Cup finals tournament that they had deigned to enter sank in.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2012

A Cardinal's daughter—niece I mean—with four thousand a year, had deigned to ally herself with us, and we were all running breast-high in the blaze of our great success.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James