Sentence examples for just desert from inspiring English sources

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Just deserts.

If a bad or evil person gets their just deserts, they get the punishment or suffer the misfortune that it is felt they deserve.

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It is not fair that in this process some people win more than their just desert.

"We're not just desert braves in moccasins and G-strings," he said.

There's no shade, just desert specked with mesquite shrubs, yuccas and prickly pear -- basically sand plus thorns.

We climb another, then another, then lose the battle with these mighty dunes as they quickly wear us down.There is absolute silence no animals, no wind, just desert.

"Now, some people — some sad, dangerous people," I began, "like to imply that David and Jonathan were more than just desert buddies".

It is literally an immuring within prison walls – on the grounds, not of credible public danger, but of imputed morality, or revenge ("a just desert").

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"They got their just deserts.

Some will see this as just deserts.

"No, that's just deserts.

"A defendant should get his just deserts," he remembered thinking.

Now the journalists are getting their just deserts.

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