mete

Example Sentences

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The internet, of course, has been quite happy to mete out those stupid prizes left and right.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

Of course, she already knew much about oppression from Miss Asthma, a crone quick to mete out punishments like “one long supperless week” when Annie sticks up for herself.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2024

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