was deserving
- past progressive of deserve.
Example Sentences
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West’s instantly and enduringly memeable words — “I’mma let you finish …” — still reverberate 15 years after he declared that Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” was deserving of the Moonman for female video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
Mr Lewis wrote in a letter that the people's immediate response at the school, in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, was "deserving of significant praise".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2024
Smith didn’t question the flag after the game: “Probably was going overboard. Shouldn’t have been talking to their sideline, should’ve stayed in my place, so that was deserving.’
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
He was deserving of leading roles on par with those Oldman has played.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023
A want of order and neatness, and a reckless disregard to rules, have made him break them openly, and as if unconscious that by so doing he was deserving of blame.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B.
