mete

Example Sentences

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California receives the vast bulk of its rain and snow between December and March, trapping the runoff in its reservoirs to mete out during the hot, dry seasons that follow.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

They started to mete out desegregation orders with teeth, requiring busing if necessary.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

And yet Himes is able to garner sympathy and adulation for these two men who, within the world of Himes’s Harlem, try their best to mete out justice equally under an inherently unjust system.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

It would be worth great sacrifice to mete out justice and prevent such a catastrophe from ever happening again.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2023

During one of my last visits to the reservation, in June 2015, I went to the Osage Nation Court, where, in many criminal cases, the Osage now mete out their own justice.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann