deserve
Example Sentences
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I’m working to change circumstances for people like her, who worked hard their entire lives and deserve to grow old with dignity and respect and love and, most importantly, support around her.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026
"We are an educated people with strong determination and we deserve to have our own state," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
Jake Reiner said he keeps thinking about how frightened his parents must have been the night they died and that they were "the last people in the world to deserve what happened to them".
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
All of them deserve a shot at opening their doors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve it, but it seems I’ve been given another chance.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Vocabulary lists containing deserve
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