How to Use deliberate in a Sentence

deliberate

1 of 2 verb

• They will deliberate the question.
• The jury deliberated for two days before reaching a verdict.
• By the end of the night, though, as judges deliberated, there was one team that stood out among the rest to take the top prize.
  — Hanna Howard, Teen Vogue, 11 Aug. 2017
• The jury should begin deliberating by the end of the week.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• The jury deliberated for less than a day at the end of a one-week trial.
  — Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• The jury now has to deliberate and return a verdict on the four charges.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• The judge has not said which ones will be alternates and which ones will deliberate the case.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• In the first trial, the jury deliberated for 52 hours and failed to reach a verdict.
  — NBC News, 24 Apr. 2018
• The jury has now been deliberating for more than 14 hours over a two-day span.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
• The jury took less than four hours to deliberate in the first January 6 case to go to trial.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2022
• There was no jury in the case, which was heard in a bench trial that ended with the judge deliberating alone.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
• The court will deliberate on the case and release a decision in the following months.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• In the first trial, the jury deliberated for more than 25 hours over four days.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2017
• As the jury left to deliberate, Spiro and his cavalry repaired to a bar a few blocks from the courthouse.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• As the jury went out to deliberate, the defense was hopeful.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2021
• That leaves just one more needed to reach the 12 who will deliberate and two serve as alternates.
  — Matt Delong, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• The jury of 12, six men and six women, deliberated for more than six hours on Monday and asked two questions of the court.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• When the case has been presented, the Senate meets in closed session to deliberate.
  — Pete Williams, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
• Cahill told jurors they would be allowed to take copies of the instructions to deliberate.
  — Michael Tarm, Star Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
• The City Council should not be deliberating on these rules.
  — Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 13 June 2018
• The state court justices will deliberate the cases on March 14.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2023
• The jury, which deliberated for about an hour, also found Wilks guilty of possession of a firearm by a felon.
  — Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2020
• When the case went to trial in 2022, two separate juries sat in the same courtroom to deliberate on the separate charges filed for the father and son.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 23 June 2023
• The jury deliberated for two hours and ruled in favor of Richardson’s client.
  — Mark Curriden Of The Texas Lawbook, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2019
• Only 12 will deliberate; the judge has not said which two will be alternates.
  — Steve Karnowski, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2021
• Paltrow was found not at fault by a jury that deliberated for just two hours.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• The judge then ordered the jury to begin deliberating from scratch.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• The panel of seven men and five women have been deliberating about 14 hours.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The jury took under four hours to deliberate, and a federal judge later sentenced him to more than 7 years in prison.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
• The jury of seven women and five men spent more than six days deliberating.
  — CBS News, 31 May 2023

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deliberate

2 of 2 adjective

• He advocates a slow and deliberate approach to the problem.
• She spoke in a clear, deliberate manner.
• The deliberate paint strokes allow the fruit to catch the light.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• To date, the pace of change has been much more deliberate.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 10 Feb. 2018
• The City’s process was open, deliberate and fair to all.
  — cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
• It’s hard to do that away from a very deliberate place like that.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 2 May 2018
• The walk and ride were deliberate, Williamson-Cloud said.
  — Dianne Lugo, oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2021
• That was a deliberate choice for these owners, who came to the area about two years ago.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2020
• But over the past three years, there’s been a deliberate shift to make the site more positive.
  — Kara Brown, Marie Claire, 1 Mar. 2019
• But the album was also the result of a deliberate course of study.
  — Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
• Porter told me that the choice of anecdote was deliberate.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
• Radford plays at a deliberate pace and thus doesn’t fill up the stats sheet or light up the scoreboard.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2018
• But it was designed to be a slow and deliberate process.
  — chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• And, again, this is being done in a very deliberate way.
  — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2021
• Eyal said there was no question the choice of the two countries was deliberate.
  — NBC News, 27 Apr. 2022
• Overall, the offense needs to take more deliberate shots and avoid a slow start.
  — Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• And so being in the middle of the city is also deliberate.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 20 June 2022
• Peyser said the decision to make the tests tougher was deliberate.
  — CBS News, 18 Oct. 2017
• For Dickman, even the act of pouring olive oil in a pan is deliberate.
  — Joshua Lurie, Los Angeles Magazine, 6 Oct. 2017
• For now, some of the attempts to keep the design simple may even be deliberate.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 July 2021
• The killing was deliberate; the gunman had to pause to reacquire his target.
  — Tom Rogan, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• The styling has to be a deliberate plot device, surely?
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2020
• The synth line is beyond catchy with a deliberate menace mixed in.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• Of course, a city can try to instead take a more deliberate approach.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 July 2019
• The stock market is itching for change, but changes have to be deliberate.
  — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Remember to be deliberate about what should be async, and what should be opt-in (or out).
  — Cate Huston, Quartz at Work, 19 May 2020
• And, alas, there are times when bias slips under the radar by deliberate design.
  — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• Only the first part of the finale felt a little too deliberate.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• The pies were thoughtful and deliberate, not high-speed, high-volume gut bombs.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2023
• This is the truth and the false narrative and deliberate lies must stop before anyone else is hurt.
  — Ann Schlarb, The Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 23 Apr 2024