Example Sentences

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If a 1 seed is going to come tumbling down, ideally they will have deserved it.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2018

"The great thing about this year is that whatever driver wins it they will have deserved it," Brawn said.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2016

If we don’t, we will lose…and even worse, we will have deserved it.”

From Forbes • Jul. 5, 2012

"It might do, but the bottom line is if we finish sixth or seventh we will have deserved it on merit," the 32-year-old says.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2011

This superhuman courage I wish for him, I ask of him; in displaying it, he will have deserved much of America and of humanity.

From The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. by Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise)