Sentence examples for deserving are from inspiring English sources

The scarcity of housing turns communities against each other, as immigrants or anyone deemed less deserving are scapegoated".

But this assumes that admissions policy is just about merit, and that the deserving are those who do better on standardised tests.

As the book's most deserving are handed their just rewards in the final chapters, we understand the novel's epigraph, from Goethe's Faust: "… who are you, then?

And what we were trying to say is, "Look, we'll have to accept the fact that some people who are not all that deserving are going to help, because otherwise we all go under".

Much more deserving are those people who have let their teeth go, rather than just their looks: "Who are these people who give up on their nuggets?" Flanagan demands.

If the firemen are, as John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, has foolishly suggested, "an exceptional case" who should receive "a special offer", how much more deserving are other groups of public sector workers?

Someone deserving was sure to be jilted.

Equally deserving was Frank Thomas of the Chicago White Sox.

"Deserves is a strong word," she said.

Whether this was fully deserved is questionable.

What she deserves is a better job.