How to Use meritorious in a Sentence

meritorious

adjective
  • She was given an award for meritorious service.
  • This is not a good thing to do, not for meritorious service, but for nothing.
    — Douglas Hofstadter, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • A day and a night [fighting for Islam] is more meritorious than a month of fasting.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2016
  • Any timekeeping system is valid, and each is as meritorious as its purpose.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
  • For meritorious achievement while in flight, he was awarded the Air Medal.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 16 June 2017
  • Dismissing a meritorious complaint before discovery is one of the worst things any judge can do.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2023
  • The award of meritorious service is given to those who have gone above and beyond in service to their school communities.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Any justice can ask that a pending case be put on the list for discussion, usually after law clerks have culled those that may be meritorious.
    — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 17 Oct. 2021
  • He was awarded 18 Air Medals for meritorious acts and heroism in flight.
    — April Dembosky, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The meritorious program comes most alive through participant stories and footage of the teams scrambling to build and test their robots.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The court found that the ban likely means the plaintiffs -- transgender troops some with decades or meritorious service – had their rights to due process violated.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Defenders counter that only the most meritorious cases are funded, since anything less would make a bad investment.
    — Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • Sigman was one of two women to receive the Silver Star for meritorious duty.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2018
  • No meritorious credit will be granted.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The counter argument is that if athletes’ third-party beneficiary claims are meritorious, those athletes have a right to be heard.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The organization has to strike a balance between rewarding the player for his years of meritorious service and doing what’s best for the team.
    — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Skin color, ethnicity and gender have nothing to do with the planning and conduct of such meritorious advanced research.
    — WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • He was later awarded the Bronze Star and a Silver Star for meritorious service.
    — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Educators presented with the award of meritorious service have gone above and beyond in service to their school communities, the state board said.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Too many courts for too long have avoided grappling with legitimate and meritorious challenges to election rules by dismissing cases on standing grounds.
    — Ashley Lopez, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
  • He also has been recognized for his leadership and performance in the line of duty and has received lifesaving awards and a meritorious service medal.
    — C.r. Walker, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • And the other involves the issue of meritorious promotion and relegation, both at the heart of British soccer.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Arnold won the very first MacKay Trophy, which recognizes the most meritorious military flight of the year.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The division’s data shows that over the last decade, only 4% of the cases considered by the panels were considered meritorious.
    — Jessica Miller, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2023
  • With a full power of removal, the President will be more likely to spare unworthy officers through fear than to displace the meritorious through caprice or passion.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Sep. 2012
  • The proportion of these filings that the NLRB deemed meritorious did not change during this period.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Considering the tremendous impact the PFD has had on every Alaskan for decades, few present proposals may be as meritorious.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2018
  • His awards include the meritorious service ribbon, good conduct medal, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, jump wings, crewman wings and the combat infantry badge.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Dickson was on his 68th mission and had already been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for meritorious service.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Dickson was on his 68th mission and had already been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for meritorious service.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 8 Apr. 2018

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