How to Use mete out in a Sentence

mete out

phrasal verb

• This leads to some verbal blows that are just as fierce as any meted out in the ring.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2023
• Danford asked the judge to mete out the maximum sentence.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
• For years, the head driver would mete out punishment with a leather strap known as Black Annie.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Gisèle leaned her head against the wall of the courthouse as Judge Roger Arata meted out the punishment for her partner of five decades.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
• But the department didn’t make the footage public or mete out punishment.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• These are films about the grave comedy of being alive, and about submitting to the seasons by which a life is meted out.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• That left Judge David Swanson to mete out justice for the conviction that still could have put Sims behind bars for four decades.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
• Often, the reprisals would be meted out on prisoners of war, who were near at hand and could easily be killed.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• And the punishment had already been meted out, Cramer Bornemann adds.
  — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2023
• It could be used to mete out jail sentences of six to 10 years to gay rights activists, their lawyers or others involved in any kind of public effort.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The judgment that the lawmakers may mete out at the Capitol is political.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• The sentence was also meted out Tuesday, according to the corps.
  — Bill Feather, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Baldwin’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss on July 11, and the issues in their argument were meted out in court.
  — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 July 2024
• Roddick lost that match — but players should not have to mete out their versions of what is fair in a sport that has rules and protocols to prevent them from doing so.
  — James Hansen, The Athletic, 17 Aug. 2024
• Adams deferred to Donlon as to whether any discipline will be meted out over the incident.
  — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 4 Nov. 2024
• Oldfield and Rothman wouldn’t be able to mete out the assignments until the report itself dropped, at which point the clock would already have started.
  — Alexis Gunderson, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Too often the violence is itself the punchline, and the baroque ways in which it’s meted out the prime evidence that anyone put any thought into this show at all.
  — Time, 27 July 2023
• Indeed, Hans does have secrets that are meted out throughout the book, though the most consequential is kept until the epilogue.
  — Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• Such arguments can seem beside the point in light of the daily brutality meted out by Russian forces in Ukraine.
  — David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• And perhaps this was the point: to paint the justice meted out by the American prison system as no less violent or gratuitous than the crime itself.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• Beatings are meted out if the smugglers are repeat offenders, Gaud said.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• By league rules, the arbitrator alone is empowered to decide the case and mete out any potential penalties.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• Bowman amply earned the reproach his own voters meted out in June, but Bush managed to somehow outdo him.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 Aug. 2024
• The verdict comes amid a raft of unusually harsh punishments being meted out for even the mildest dissent against Russia’s war in Ukraine.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
• If they were all being punished, at least punishment was meted out equally.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
• Her ninth child, Max, said his mother meted out discipline in her own way, through healthy competition.
  — Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
• Treating his captives not as commandos but as regular troops, Kolb shielded them from the SS and the harsh treatment that hard-line Nazis would likely have meted out.
  — Katie Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• Even if Israel metes out to Hamas its just deserts, the fighting could lead to a tremendous loss of life and push a peaceful settlement to the 75-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict even further out of reach.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2023
• Baseball games update by the pitch, politicians make statements on social media, and attention, which used to be meted out by the media, is now under the watch of algorithms.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
• Now, Syrians hope their country can transition to something that does not involve such loss nor the abuses meted out at Saydnaya.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2025