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How to use merited in a sentence

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Unlike clashes between workers which often resulted in disciplinary lay-offs, these cases frequently merited the ultimate sanction of discharge.
While he did catch him in the head, the hack in no way merited a suspension.
There was a time when a grazed knee in the playground merited a quick visit to the school nurse, a dab of TCP and a sticking plaster.
Finally, elitist condescension, however merited, helps cement Bush's bond to the masses.
Had rotten branches been found, I am convinced that such a lovely tree merited the attention of a tree surgeon rather than felling it.
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi was one of the great Talmudic sages, a man so holy he merited visitations from the prophet Eliyahu.
I'm not sure, having seen other Hughes bros films, whether it was merited, but at the time I found it incredibly sad.
Men who have merited this last distinction are to be suffered to pass all guards and sentinels which officers are permitted to do.
By now the trend is prominent enough to have merited a New York Times Magazine cover story.
I hadn't merited this much attention since I'd had the nerve to drink Budweiser in my box seat at the Hollywood Bowl.
That stated, it has to be reported that it held the first night audience's attention and justly merited their cheers.
The only pity was that he didn't actually crown his display with the goal his efforts and skills merited.
Whereas virtually every player deserved the award at Reading on Tuesday, nobody merited the accolade last night.
Jack thought it was a turning point, but did not think the foul merited the punishment.
Corporate governance watchers said the ouster of independent directors is unusual and merited an inquiry.
The defender's control let him down, the inviting chance lost, yet such spontaneous invention fully merited the resultant applause.
He identified four areas of complaint that in his judgment merited consideration by the full court and granted leave.
The second related to a new duty placed on all teachers to assist school heads in assessing whether their colleagues merited receiving the award.
Ollie Moran gave an exhibition of high fielding skills and Balla went on to record a merited victory.
It gave the home side a draw they more than merited and strengthens their bid to see out the season mixing it with the big boys.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This comprehends deliverance from merited sufferings, and the bestowment of happiness which is the contrast of it.
Her personal charms fully merited the encomiastic strains of the following epistle.
The baronet's eulogium on his friend's taste in gourmandise was well and justly merited.
Of the few passers-by there was not one who merited a second glance or thought!
As for the Book itself, questionless the universal favor entertained for it is well merited.
But it may be questioned whether Swanston really merited this reprehension.
Truth to tell he realized that he merited a rebuke for his lack of observation.
The lad sought to obey him with an alacrity that merited a kinder fate.
A passing notice is merited by the pulpit, which is Jacobean.
Coarsely followed, it would have merited a name grown somewhat unfamiliar to our ears.
I have already successfully conducted several public prosecutions, and brought the offenders to merited punishment.
To be sure, one might have doubted, after the wayward and impatient existence she had led, whether she merited a haven of peace at last.
Then they stood on the bank shivering, and so chagrined and so grieved, that they merited holiest compassion.
It arose from a consciousness of guilt, and a dread of merited punishment.
How much Morelos merited the honour will appear in the sequel.
He merited their opprobrium, simply by being a comrade to his men.
Another Dairy Shorthorn merited an honourable mention, and Kayleigh Coole, showing on behalf of the family, was third in the young handlers class.
The two clerks, by dint of quarrelling over the details of their lives, and washing much of their dirty linen at the office, had obtained the disrepute which they merited.
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