How to Use deal with in a Sentence

deal with

phrasal verb
  • The amount of back-to-backs teams (still) have to deal with doesn’t help matters, either.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Often, her work deals with the human form in dysmorphic ways, with faces that have been sliced away or figures painted stark red and white.
    Scarlet Cheng, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Emma Corrin dealt with smelly rats up close while filming Nosferatu.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
  • István, for example, gets a job at a winery where his responsibilities include dealing with bottles newly imported from Italy.
    Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
  • And then the sewage system can just deal with the sewage and not have to deal with the stormwater.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And Diana just got a pen knife out and just dealt with it.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
  • That’s the kind of magic that happens, so deal with it.
    Faith Cummings, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Highs should mainly be in the low and mid-80s, and there won’t be a heat index to deal with.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Drake is one of the many rappers that has had to deal with fans throwing things on stage.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The senior is dealing with a knee injury so the squad might not be full strength at the start of the season.
    Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But the cross-country move wasn't easy: First Sheldon had to deal with the loss of his father, George Sr.
    EW.com, 17 May 2024
  • Tyreek Hill is dealing with a hand injury, and a stout defense should keep the Jets in this game for a while.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Thuc Nhi Nguyen’s pick: Both teams are dealing with injuries, but the Saints have the bigger one.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
  • That deal is a four-year, $7.9 million deal with a team option on the fourth year, a source said to ESPN.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 3 July 2024
  • During this time, Poland was in the midst of the Great Northern War, and the country was dealing with a plague outbreak.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • The Israelis have dealt with Gaza tunnels constantly in the past.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This is not the first time that Switzerland has moved to deal with historic munitions.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
  • On top of that, farmers had to deal with inflated feed and fuel costs.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This will likely be confusing or even painful to deal with.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
  • Little Caesar’s, the third-largest pizza chain in the world, inked a delivery deal with Uber Eats in April.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • That’s also maybe some way of Sheldon dealing with his grief about his dad as a young adult is to focus on the bad things.
    Jim Halterman, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • But, says Pal, the associate professor, the people most able to deal with the problem are the ones who profit the most from it.
    Yashraj Sharma, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Akira swore to avenge her father’s death, and Caine will likely have to deal with this in his spinoff film, set for a 2025 release.
    Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The defense has had to deal with injuries for most of the season, but is getting healthy at the right time before the playoffs begin.
    Jared Ramsey, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In deal with union, Hotel Figueroa in downtown L.A. to hire back some restaurant workers.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • But Roth adds that there is room for someone to purchase the judgments in order to work out a deal with Dame before the auction.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2024
  • In testing, this curve gave a bit of extra leverage when dealing with tough patches of crust on the bottom of a loaf of bread.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 16 July 2024
  • Every player on the basketball team has a deal with Men of Westwood.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • His generation was still learning to deal with anger and pain.
    Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
  • England is far from the only one dealing with A.C.L. injuries.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023

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