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.
  • The jury should begin deliberating by the end of the week.
    Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The jury now has to deliberate and return a verdict on the four charges.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
  • 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 judge has not said which ones will be alternates and which ones will deliberate the case.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • 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 court will deliberate on the case and release a decision in the following months.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • As the jury went out to deliberate, the defense was hopeful.
    Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Cahill told jurors they would be allowed to take copies of the instructions to deliberate.
    Michael Tarm, Star Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The judge then ordered the jury to begin deliberating from scratch.
    Tim Arango, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Paltrow was found not at fault by a jury that deliberated for just two hours.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The jurors were once again excused to deliberate in private.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The jury of seven women and five men spent more than six days deliberating.
    CBS News, 31 May 2023
  • The jury deliberated for about a day before reaching a verdict in the civil case.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • When the case has been presented, the Senate meets in closed session to deliberate.
    Pete Williams, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The jury deliberated for nearly four hours over two days.
    Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In the latest retrial, the jury had been deliberating since last week.
    Abigail Abrams, Fortune, 24 May 2018
  • While the judge deliberated, lottery officials agreed to pay the woman through her lawyers.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The City Council should not be deliberating on these rules.
    Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 13 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The jury spent about a week deliberating the case before convicting him last year.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 22 Jan. 2020
  • News outlets report that the jury spent less than two hours deliberating.
    Paula Rogo, Essence.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The jury deliberated for about five hours over two days before reaching a verdict.
    Peter Smith, ajc, 17 June 2023
  • After hearing the new instructions, the jury was sent back to deliberate the three charges further.
    Tim De Chant, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The jury deliberated for two hours after a three-day trial.
    Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The jury deliberated about five hours over two days before reaching a verdict.
    Peter Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
Advertisement

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
  • It’s hard to do that away from a very deliberate place like that.
    Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 2 May 2018
  • Porter told me that the choice of anecdote was deliberate.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But the album was also the result of a deliberate course of study.
    Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
  • But it was designed to be a slow and deliberate process.
    chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
  • And so being in the middle of the city is also deliberate.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 20 June 2022
  • Eyal said there was no question the choice of the two countries was deliberate.
    NBC News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Peyser said the decision to make the tests tougher was deliberate.
    CBS News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • The synth line is beyond catchy with a deliberate menace mixed in.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • The City’s process was open, deliberate and fair to all.
    cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Overall, the offense needs to take more deliberate shots and avoid a slow start.
    Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Only the first part of the finale felt a little too deliberate.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 May 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
  • And, again, this is being done in a very deliberate way.
    ABC News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The styling has to be a deliberate plot device, surely?
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Of course, a city can try to instead take a more deliberate approach.
    Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 July 2019
  • The choice to avoid dealing with that period head on in his work was deliberate.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The stock market is itching for change, but changes have to be deliberate.
    Walter Loeb, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The rhythms of his films are more deliberate than many viewers are accustomed to.
    Terrence Rafferty, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020
  • His work has also been slower and more deliberate than tech entrepreneurs of the past.
    Barbara Ortutay, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 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
  • The skeleton showed signs of deliberate butchering by stone tools.
    John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • The pacing goes from slow and deliberate to upbeat and peppy.
    Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'deliberate.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: