Meriting is an English word with synonyms like deserving or worth. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Meriting meaning
present participle and gerund of merit
Using Meriting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of merit
- Useful related words include: deserving, worth, worthy.
- In the example corpus, meriting often appears in combinations such as: those meriting.
Context around Meriting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Meriting
- In this selection, "meriting" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, torture, statements, level, judicial, verification and merely stand out and add context to how "meriting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a level meriting reopening the and even animals meriting death. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "meriting" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with meriting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One should never harm the wicked or the good or even animals meriting death. (14 words)
The torture commission in October found that there was “credible evidence of torture” meriting judicial review. (16 words)
Traisman says specifically of ostracism: “Ostracism was used as a penalty for more disruptive acts than those meriting merely satirical sanctions. (21 words)
My stuff was right, but they would correct you,” he further argued after being repeatedly interrupted and fact-checked by Muir and Davis, something that was never done against Harris, despite some of her statements meriting verification. (37 words)
But while sometimes highlighting the disproportionate toll the virus has had on certain racial and ethnic groups, the CDC is being careful not to categorize them as high risk or meriting higher priority for certain health services. (37 words)
National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat reportedly recommended that ministers extend the lockdown until Monday, arguing that morbidity rates are not expected to dip to a level meriting reopening the economy before then. (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
The torture commission in October found that there was “credible evidence of torture” meriting judicial review.
But there were some tasty flashpoints throughout the game that also caught the eye - with just of those meriting a red card in the eyes of ex-referee Madden.
My stuff was right, but they would correct you,” he further argued after being repeatedly interrupted and fact-checked by Muir and Davis, something that was never done against Harris, despite some of her statements meriting verification.
Traisman says specifically of ostracism: “Ostracism was used as a penalty for more disruptive acts than those meriting merely satirical sanctions.
But while sometimes highlighting the disproportionate toll the virus has had on certain racial and ethnic groups, the CDC is being careful not to categorize them as high risk or meriting higher priority for certain health services.
National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat reportedly recommended that ministers extend the lockdown until Monday, arguing that morbidity rates are not expected to dip to a level meriting reopening the economy before then.
One should never harm the wicked or the good or even animals meriting death.
Common combinations with meriting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: