meritoriously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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She graduated from her corporal school at the top of her class and was meritoriously promoted ahead of peers to sergeant in Kuwait, not long before landing in Afghanistan.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
They were great qualities, without which no high place can be meritoriously won; but, like fire and water, though excellent servants, they were very bad masters.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Christ is the foundation personally and meritoriously; but the prophets and apostles, by doctrine, ministerially.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
Radisson must have served meritoriously on the fleet, for after the wreck he was offered the command of a man-of-war; but he asked for a commission to New France.
From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
She became the second wife of Constantius in the year 352, and seems to have enjoyed in matters political a considerable influence with her husband, which she always employed meritoriously.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
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