Sentence examples for was deserving from inspiring English sources
verb
To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
- After playing so well, the team really deserved their win.
He has never given me any reason to doubt that he was deserving of my respect.
As the face of the new Mets, Pedro Martinez was deserving of a bobblehead in 2005.
He took outrageous punishment to try and show fans that he was deserving of their admiration.
There was no argument from Ancic either about who was deserving.
"It was so clear that she needed help, and she was deserving of the help," Ms. Soltz said.
He just thought of it as his job and didn't feel that he was deserving of all the accolades.
British Wrestling's chairman, Malcolm Morley, said he believed "very strongly" that it was deserving of all three places on offer.
"I was drafted into the team even though the other coaches did not think I was deserving".
But just before independence in Rwanda, the Belgians changed their minds and started to favour the Hutus, on the view that the oppressed majority was deserving.
He asked for little, was deserving of so much and will always be loved and respected by all who knew him.
The statement "I believe" indicated that Christ was deserving of worship and faith and that he was therefore on a level with God.
