How to Use deference in a Sentence

deference

noun

• He is shown much deference by his colleagues.
• Her relatives treat one another with deference.
• There used to be a kind of deference to the U.S. Not anymore.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
• The law requires deference to the work of state court judges, but what if those judges hadn’t done the work?
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• That deference may not have mattered much most of the time.
  — Steven Lee Myers, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2020
• Lin wrote the lyrics that pay deference to all of the towns in Puerto Rico.
  — Andres Tardio, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2017
• There is a deference that the White House has to senators from a state.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 5 Feb. 2022
• She’s agreed to share me with you out of deference to my culture.
  — Karan Mahajan, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• On its face, that sounds a lot like the Supreme Court applied Chevron deference.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 June 2022
• Day said those plans were scrapped in deference to taking no chances with the virus.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2020
• For the business lobby, killing Chevron deference is the big brass ring.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• Spent in deference, as ever, to those with much more than me.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Thomas seemed to take a shot at that deference to precedent by Roberts.
  — Fox News, 29 June 2020
• There has been a deference that has been given in the past,’’ Murphy said.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 9 July 2018
• The drums should be the loudest in any mix — live or recorded — and the drummer shown the greatest deference.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
• My new method of marking wasn't out of deference to books.
  — Connie Nelson, Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
• Then in 2016, in a show of deference to the prickly Persians, Xi went to Tehran to cement the alliance.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Goldberg asks: Should Trump get the same deference as Bush?
  — latimes.com, 7 July 2018
• Rare are those who, for any reason, earn that kind of deference.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The idea is that the trial court is entitled to deference.
  — Steve Vladeck, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022
• There still seems to be some deference to the real estate masters of the universe in the way the language is framed.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
• Some states have had little choice but to show deference.
  — Joe Drape, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• Duterte was keen on pivoting the Philippines away from its deference to the U.S..
  — Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• Stores were closed in deference to the holiday last year.
  — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• It was billed as a Valentine’s date night, but scheduled for the 13th out of deference to Ash Wednesday.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The women were wearing sun suits in deference to the chilliness of the morning.
  — Jamie Hale, OregonLive.com, 20 June 2017
• There's also the now-mandatory deference to the plant world.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 1 Aug. 2017
• The demise of Chevron deference might be the next hurdle for the IRA's hydrogen tax credit.
  — Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 9 July 2024
• The researchers emphasize that the ship’s skeletal remains were treated with deference.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
• By a vote of six to three, the Court overturned its earlier ruling that deference should be shown to administrative agencies in their interpretation of federal law.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024