deemed

in a sentence

Has the king deemed it safe?  (source) Kiera Cass, The One, 2014

In some cases, hiring additional police was considered a violation of the era's liberal aesthetic; in others, it was simply deemed too expensive.  (source) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, 2005

Once the bikes were deemed secure, supplies were untied and divvied up.  (source) Nora Roberts, Blood Brothers, 2007

Seabiscuit had been a very late foal, born at the end of May 1933, but in January 1935, half a year short of his actual birthday, he was deemed a two-year-old, officially eligible to race.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

The countenances of many a parishioner reflected shock and insult, as if the Lord Jesus had just spat in their faces—to deem them sacrilegious.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.  (source) Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

I believe what happens here and in other stories and novels (The Sacred Fount [1901] comes to mind) is that he deems the figure of the consuming spirit or vampiric personality a useful narrative vehicle.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

In the high house beheld he a many of warriors, A host of men sib all sleeping together, Of man-warriors a heap; then laugh'd out his mood; 730 In mind deem'd he to sunder, or ever came day, The monster, the fell one, from each of the men there The life from the body; for befell him a boding Of fulfilment of feeding: but weird now it was not That he any more of mankind thenceforward Should eat, that night over.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1895

He in few Thus answering spake: "Thou deemest thou art still On th' other side the centre, where I grasp'd Th' abhorred worm, that boreth through the world.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

Let wisest God, sacred Lord, on which side soever doom decree as he deemeth right.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1900

Farther on, If I misdeem not, Soldanieri bides, With Ganellon, and Tribaldello, him Who op'd Faenza when the people slept.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

And as a sleep is broken and dispers'd Through sharp encounter of the nimble light, With the eye's spirit running forth to meet The ray, from membrane on to the membrane urg'd; And the upstartled wight loathes that be sees; So, at his sudden waking, he misdeems Of all around him, till assurance waits On better judgment: thus the saintly came Drove from before mine eyes the motes away, With the resplendence of her own, that cast Their brightness downward, thousand miles below.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

Onward a space, what seem'd seven trees of gold, The intervening distance to mine eye Falsely presented; but when I was come So near them, that no lineament was lost Of those, with which a doubtful object, seen Remotely, plays on the misdeeming sense, Then did the faculty, that ministers Discourse to reason, these for tapers of gold Distinguish, and it th' singing trace the sound "Hosanna."†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320