Example Sentences

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Ann Meyers Drysdale, the first woman to work an NBA game for one of the broadcast networks in 1997 for NBC, said Burke has deserved this opportunity.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Seeing a brown girl be the hot one that the guys want and showing that she has deserved to be loved.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2023

It should be a year to right some of the wrongs of the past iterations of the tournament and to put the women’s game on the equal footing it has deserved for a long time.

From The Verge • Mar. 25, 2022

"There are reasons for a finale. I think this franchise has deserved it."

From Fox News • Jun. 11, 2021

Is this what innocence well known to all, is this what the heavy toil of unbroken study, has deserved?

From Dante Six Sermons by Wicksteed, Philip H.