entitle

Example Sentences

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No adult child is entitled to a share of their parents’ estate, especially if they have already broken ties with those parents.

From MarketWatch

Maybe we’d stop dismissing each other as lazy and entitled and instead try to understand one another’s needs and background.

From Salon

The panel found Mr Lawler was entitled to hold his own beliefs, but the newsletters were "not just advancing strongly held opinions" but were "attacks" on positions that Mr Lawler "sought to denigrate".

From BBC

The reader’s expectations get overturned faster than a bucket of milk when the goat and the sheep get into a spat over which of them is entitled to say “baa.”

From The Wall Street Journal

District Judge Sunshine S. Sykes certified a nationwide class of noncitizens subject to the policy and separately ruled that the government’s interpretation of the law was wrong – detainees are entitled to bond hearings.

From Salon