How to Use mete out in a Sentence

mete out

phrasal verb

• This leads to some verbal blows that are just as fierce as any meted out in the ring.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2023
• Danford asked the judge to mete out the maximum sentence.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
• For years, the head driver would mete out punishment with a leather strap known as Black Annie.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• But the department didn’t make the footage public or mete out punishment.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• These are films about the grave comedy of being alive, and about submitting to the seasons by which a life is meted out.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Often, the reprisals would be meted out on prisoners of war, who were near at hand and could easily be killed.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• And the punishment had already been meted out, Cramer Bornemann adds.
  — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2023
• It could be used to mete out jail sentences of six to 10 years to gay rights activists, their lawyers or others involved in any kind of public effort.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The judgment that the lawmakers may mete out at the Capitol is political.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• The sentence was also meted out Tuesday, according to the corps.
  — Bill Feather, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Oldfield and Rothman wouldn’t be able to mete out the assignments until the report itself dropped, at which point the clock would already have started.
  — Alexis Gunderson, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Too often the violence is itself the punchline, and the baroque ways in which it’s meted out the prime evidence that anyone put any thought into this show at all.
  — Time, 27 July 2023
• Indeed, Hans does have secrets that are meted out throughout the book, though the most consequential is kept until the epilogue.
  — Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• Such arguments can seem beside the point in light of the daily brutality meted out by Russian forces in Ukraine.
  — David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• And perhaps this was the point: to paint the justice meted out by the American prison system as no less violent or gratuitous than the crime itself.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• Beatings are meted out if the smugglers are repeat offenders, Gaud said.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• By league rules, the arbitrator alone is empowered to decide the case and mete out any potential penalties.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• The verdict comes amid a raft of unusually harsh punishments being meted out for even the mildest dissent against Russia’s war in Ukraine.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• If they were all being punished, at least punishment was meted out equally.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Treating his captives not as commandos but as regular troops, Kolb shielded them from the SS and the harsh treatment that hard-line Nazis would likely have meted out.
  — Katie Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Instead, the public executions were meted out with unchecked viciousness as the men were beaten, hanged, shot, paraded through town and, in one instance, set on fire.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• Its members often carry machetes instead of guns, and are known for brutally meting out retribution on the streets.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Fueling anger The central government appears to have been shocked by the surge in penalties meted out by local authorities.
  — Laura He, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
• While investors were first promised their full allocation prior to launch, it would now be meted out in increments every Monday over a period of eight weeks.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
• Her avidity added some dimension to Gold’s vision of a world in which justice is meted out to those who speak most eloquently and power redounds to those who are already powerful.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
• The sense of relief is palpable among residents who vividly recall the intense flooding meted out by a series of atmospheric rivers last winter.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• The mother of a New Yorker killed in 2017 when a man driving a truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on a crowded Manhattan bike path told a hushed courtroom on Wednesday that no punishment meted out to the attacker could compare to her pain.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 17 May 2023
• Given all the confusion surrounding the tragedy, citizens of Decatur are actively protesting Perkins’ death, calling on cops to release the bodycam footage and mete out justice where necessary.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• Defense attorneys say they have been warned by friends in the federal public defender’s office to expect Chutkan to mete out incarceration.
  — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• But in practice, its use is tolerated in some situations and discipline is rarely meted out for offenders.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024