How to Use deference in a Sentence

deference

noun

• He is shown much deference by his colleagues.
• Her relatives treat one another with deference.
• As if in deference to the gravitas of her themes, Carlson is rarely acclaimed for her sense of humor.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
• But that quiet aura should not be mistaken for timidity or deference.
  — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
• The former Glossier retail workers who spoke with Fortune described a culture of deference to the customer at the cost of all else.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
• Trump responded positively to this display of deference, but no meeting occurred.
  — Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
• Mezrich exudes gratitude for the families of organ donors and saves the most deference for the entirely healthy people who choose live organ donation.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
• Candidates and aides all were wearing face masks, in deference to health experts’ and government coronavirus transmission guidance.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Opponents of the law say the lower court gave too much deference to the federal government’s national security concerns and not enough consideration of freedom of expression when upholding the law.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025