How to Use deal with in a Sentence

deal with

phrasal verb
  • 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
  • The amount of back-to-backs teams (still) have to deal with doesn’t help matters, either.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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 airport was dealing with high winds of 40 miles an hour at the time of the landing and a snowy tarmac.
    Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • According to Schefter, Carroll and the Raiders agreed to terms on a three-year deal with a fourth-year team option.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The 23-year-old, who lives with his parents in Boston, said friends around his age have been dealing with the same challenges.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • There are contracts that need to be dealt with by next month, and the Clippers survived without Leonard to stay relevant in the West.
    Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The movie is then very much about how all of these characters deal with that complication.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Engine fires are rare, and crews trained to deal with them, aviation expert Steven Wallace said.
    TIME, 14 Mar. 2025

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