How to Use mete in a Sentence

mete

verb

• Countries would be free to decide how to mete out the rights.
  — Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2019
• Matt and Chris maintain the bot on their own server and mete out access to it.
  — Lauren Schwartzberg, WIRED, 25 May 2017
• So what standard was used in 1905 to mete out the punishment?
  — John Myers, latimes.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• When the time comes, demons barrel onto Earth to mete out a grisly death sentence.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 27 Nov. 2021
• Throw a jar of icing in the fridge to mete out with impunity and BOOM — instant cake craving fix.
  — Danielle Guercio, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• The raging, swirling winds that struck Bowling Green did not mete out their damage evenly.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• Yet the issue of how to mete out the research money has been hotly debated.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2021
• The Bias Response Team is there, ready to investigate and mete out justice.
  — Jillian Kay Melchior, WSJ, 8 May 2018
• The high profile nature of the case is likely to create pressure on the judge to mete out a harsh sentence, attorneys said.
  — Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
• CEOs have the power to mete out punishments and benefits.
  — Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2022
• Batman and Superman were not the only superheroes to mete out vengeance during the war years.
  — Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
• Hong condemned the cruelty by the suspect and urged the U.S. judicial system to hold a fair trial and mete out harsh punishment to the man charged in the case.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• In Arlington, months of debate have centered on whether the civilian board should be able to launch its own probes or mete out discipline.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• The U.S. has promised to mete out the equipment incrementally, based on the mission, to insure weapons aren’t used by Kurdish groups in Turkey.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• Her job is to deliver pep talks and mete out discipline, but Krystal is not really the boss.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2016
• Minorities, on the other hand, appear frightened at the treatment such a government might mete out to them.
  — The Economist, 18 Nov. 2019
• The Academy, meanwhile, is still trying to figure out what punishment, if any, to mete out.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 29 Mar. 2022
• Caine plays the London gangster of the title who seeks to mete out a little justice after his brother in Newcastle is killed.
  — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 20 Dec. 2022
• As Avatar, she's taken it upon herself to mete out justice to criminals, which leads to a reunion with a familiar face from the first book.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 May 2020
• The detective eventually teams up with the mother of the most recent victim to mete out justice the law seems unable to provide.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 2 Jan. 2023
• The Trump administration was required by law to mete out some sanctions on Turkey for the S-400 transaction.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
• Most are settled at this table by the judges, who often mete out small fines, which the defendants pay to victims and camp administrators.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2017
• But Inovio did it through an at-the-market agreement, or ATM, which is a pre-existing deal that lets the company mete out new stock to investment banks that then sell it on the open market.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 13 Mar. 2020
• Lynne said that Jamie uses that information to mete out punishments and rewards.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
• The victims of a New York road rage incident last week say their attackers were attempting to mete out vigilante justice — but chose the wrong targets, and yelled racial slurs at them.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 17 May 2018
• Others invoked Bible verses and a higher power, with one warning the governing board that God would mete out justice in the afterlife.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2022
• As part of the agreement, a special court is supposed to uncover the truth about seven decades of rebel violence, mete out justice and compensate victims.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022
• Some even allow for their daughters to mete out physical punishments.
  — Anna North, Vox, 19 Aug. 2019
• On the latter, Pompeo has advocated more punitive actions than the president has been willing to mete out.
  — Karoun Demirjian, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• There's obviously something cathartic about seeing these victims turn the tables and unite to mete out justice.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024