How to Use mete out in a Sentence

mete out

verb
  • And for some reason, there’s still some punishment that needs to be meted out [to her].
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Justice has been meted out to one abusive mother.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Expulsion is the most severe form of punishment the guild can mete out.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
  • This was meted out through a racing time trial two weeks into practice.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Few punishments were meted out in the first example.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Vartkessian has spoken to jurors who meted out the ultimate penalty, and some of them wouldn’t think twice about doing it again.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Petzold, who also wrote the script, is masterful at meting out backstory.
    — Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Consumption, too, could be weaponized to express allegiance or mete out punishment.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
  • She wouldn’t be ignored or dismissed or the whipping girl for every toxic emotion that her family and circle can mete out.
    — Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Neither did Banegas, who was whisked away by deputies to be fingerprinted after his sentence was meted out.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Attacks by the infected are few and far between, and most of the violence on display is meted out by the Jimmys.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2026
  • If a judge metes out the punishment, court staff sometimes fail to communicate with the DMV.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Renata grieves for her deceased sister, Josie, and fears being arrested for meting out her own form of justice for the death.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But in a chamber where so much revenge can be meted out by a Speaker, being the member to push something over to the edge can be career-ending.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Any disciplinary measures are meted out by the Florida Supreme Court.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • The Iranian regime has also started meting out financial punishment as part of the crackdown.
    — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 13 May 2026
  • The brothers sometimes visited, and Andrew has described meting out harsh discipline.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • That was the heaviest penalty ever meted out under the national security law.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
  • By contrast, Red Threshold breaches will see a minimum six-point deduction meted out to offenders.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The parking spaces and wine cellars are also meted out sparingly, according to brokers, with preference going to the buyers of the larger units.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The prizes will be meted out at tonight’s closing ceremony in Taormina’s Ancient Greek amphitheater.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 June 2026
  • Swalwell’s downfall might even show that, if old-school journalism can still mete out consequences for bad behavior, new media can sometimes accelerate this process, rather than dilute it.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Khamanei’s rule was marked by mismanagement, and ultimately ended with one of the more brutal episodes of his trademark repression – the violence his regime meted out to keep power.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
  • License plate readers can easily be accessed or repurposed beyond their original goals of managing traffic, meting out fines or catching fugitives.
    — Jess Reia, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But the suffering of companion animals pales beside the torment meted out to the humans here, as many succumb to the quick-spreading bacterial infection.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His punishment was meted out in December, with the summary posted on the NYPD website last week.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But many instructors don’t report incidents of cheating to administrators responsible for enforcing those rules and meting out punishments.
    — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • But many instructors don’t report incidents of cheating to administrators responsible for enforcing those rules and meting out punishments.
    — Austin Sarat, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • To mete out those funds, the agency pores over at least tens of thousands of grant applications every year, subjecting them to reviews from multiple panels of experts; only about 20 percent are funded, or sometimes far less.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
  • During one meeting, Hoffman remembers discussing whether AI could eventually be trusted to mete out criminal sentencing.
    — Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026

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