Example Sentences

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For the last week, only a single blossom has deigned to grace us with its presence.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2022

Whitney Port, calm and chic, rolls her round eyes at such drama, but neither Lauren Conrad nor Kristin Cavallari has deigned to grace this revival.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2019

Will you stand on the street, some weekend morning, squabbling about the merits of the $3,000-a-month rathole a broker has deigned to show you?

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2014

No one has deigned to risk his livelihood while currently playing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2013

And that then mankind was happy in the tranquillity of universal peace, this all writers of history, this famous poets, this even the Scribe of the meekness of Christ has deigned to attest.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by Church, R. W. (Richard William)