Sentence examples for deserved the name from inspiring English sources

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Jelena's bathing suit hardly deserved the name, some bits of cloth and a strap or two.

Yet the expansion has been so desultory that it barely deserved the name.

Watching one of them in flagrante, he thought nostalgically of his seemly spouse and doubted whether the Eskimo wife even deserved the name of woman.

"I saw," writes Ozick, "in the conflagration of her seeing, the critical logic of what hardly deserved the name of madness.

If the border between Scotland and England deserved the name Debatable Lands for centuries, the same is true for Orkney and Shetland: these are the Debatable Islands.

Last month, Sanyo presented a device that somehow deserved the name, as the LP-XU106 weighs just 4kg.

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Without a figurehead, the coup did not deserve the name.

Meanwhile, Congress is promoting a political reform which scarcely deserves the name.

"It does not deserve the name 'National Mall,' " said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington's nonvoting member of Congress.

"I was just waiting for a horse good enough to deserve the name," Mack said.

Politically, we live in a democracy that barely deserves the name".

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