Example Sentences

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But when we called them essential, what we were really doing was deeming them expendable.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024

"If it's someone who just wasn't respected or rated by Jurgen because Jurgen was deeming him not to be performing well enough, that's a different issue."

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2021

She declined to say how old she was, deeming it an “impolite question”, saying instead: “If you really need a number then go ahead and make it up based on my photographs”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2017

He had a little basket, the things he was deeming his treasures, that he had to save.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2012

There were indeed four sides to the counting-house, but he avoided that one where the window was, deeming it probable that Quilp would be looking out of it.

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles