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88 example sentences for DEEM, such as:

1. I deem it not likely that he will betray the secret.
2. I am simply going to keep looking forward and do what I deem is right.
3. Gershwin's lyrics would today probably be deemed politically incorrect.
4. He says he would support the use of force if the UN deemed it necessary.
5. She did not deem it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her in the face.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEEM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deem
 v.  decide; judge; sentence; condemn
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  But if from the comparative dimensions of the whale's proper brain, you deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea for you.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
2  She did not deem it worth while to go in search of any of the fashionable acquaintances from whom she had withdrawn herself.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
3  She did not deem it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her in the face.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  But before narrating any of the peculiar circumstances, I deem it proper to make known my intention not to state all the facts connected with the transaction.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  With these facts before him he did not deem it necessary that he should become feverish over the possibilities of the ensuing twenty-four hours.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
6  You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
7  There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
8  I deem it not likely that he will betray the secret.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
9  I had the highest opinion of the wisdom of this same Margin, but I am bound to acknowledge that on looking back, I deem it to have been an expensive device.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
10  Now we are led hither, to the very dust and ashes of our father, not as I deem without divine purpose and influence, and borne home into the friendly haven.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
11  Too mighty, lords of heaven, did you deem the brood of Rome, had this your gift been abiding.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
12  Nay, no other funeral than this would I deem thy due, my Pallas, than good Aeneas does, than the mighty Phrygians, than the Tyrrhene captains and all the army of Tyrrhenia.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
13  And I am sure that you, Dr. Seward, humanitarian and medico-jurist as well as scientist, will deem it a moral duty to deal with me as one to be considered as under exceptional circumstances.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  We are trying to do our duty in a very sad and terrible case; we can only do as we deem best.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  "Let no one deem himself happy before his end," were the words of Solon; and here was a new and brilliant proof of the wisdom of the old apothegm.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
Example Sentence:
1  I am simply going to keep looking forward and do what I deem is right.
2  President Obama granted clemency to a record 214 inmates on Wednesday, far surpassing his previous single-day record, as part of an ongoing effort to release federal inmates serving prison terms deemed to be unduly harsh.
3  After more than two weeks of strong share-price gains that an analyst deemed "confounding," Twitter stock seemed to reach a correction stage Friday, with shares plunging 13 percent.
4  He says he would support the use of force if the UN deemed it necessary.
5  Gershwin's lyrics would today probably be deemed politically incorrect.
6  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.
7  The Chinese Government deems it necessary to reiterate its position and policy on the following matters.