mete out
Example Sentences
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The case pitted McGlockton’s right to defend his family from a threatening stranger against Drejka’s right to initiate a confrontation over a parking spot and then to mete out justice according to his own whim.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026
The internet, of course, has been quite happy to mete out those stupid prizes left and right.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 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
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
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