Sentence examples for really earn it from inspiring English sources

Teaching is one of the few professions where respect is accorded to those who really earn it: not to the office bullies or blowhards but to those who can command a classroom with a whisper, a roll of the eyes or a startling idea.

"I had a sniff of it at Portsmouth, but I didn't really earn it - I was chucked in the deep end for a couple of matches when Portsmouth were in trouble".

But he'll really earn it if he's able to persuade ad buyers that the people who watch offbeat shows like The Crocodile Hunter on Animal Planet or Monster Garage on Discovery are worth just as much, per second, as the viewers of CBS Everybody Lovess Raymond or Survivor.

I never forget how fortunate I am to have been able to rise through the ranks in his kitchens the hard-knock way and really earn it.

In addition, overachievers are more likely to value being promoted regardless of how they got it, "even if it's at the expense of a coworker or if they didn't really earn it," Eliot says.

Newt has really earned it.

"I felt like I really earned it," he said.

This episode didn't seem like it really earned it.

"Of course I don't want to go through that every time," he admits, "and I hate putting my family through it, but now it feels like I've really earned it and any plaudits are deserved.

Accorsi said he once turned down the chance to hire his own son on his football staff "because it would be hard for him to wonder whether he really earned it". Accorsi said it was different for a player, who can prove his worth on the field, though "still not easy".

In the late 1960s, some 15 years after the publication of "Lord of the Flies," William Golding confessed to a friend that he resented the novel because it meant that he owed his reputation to what he thought of as a minor book, a book that had made him a classic in his lifetime, which was "a joke," and that the money he had gained from it was "Monopoly money" because he hadn't really earned it.