deserve
Example Sentences
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"They deserved to be ahead and it took a huge effort to get back in the game and ahead on the scoreboard."
From BBC
“We deserve a little something. What we want is a good salary.”
It’s about time that cabbage deserves its rightful spotlight.
From Salon
I had the idea that such a colleague, a role model for us, would warrant and would deserve and hopefully would feel reassurance as a result of his colleagues coming along to support him.
The Administration’s strongest argument is that it deserves deference on questions that implicate foreign affairs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.