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Example sentences for "mete"

Lexicographically close words:
metates; metathesis; metathorax; metayer; metazoon; meted; metely; metempsychosis; meten; meteor
  1. God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

  2. I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

  3. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

  4. And oute of thys greate streame of eloquucion, not only must we chose apte, and mete wordes, but also take hede of placinge, and settinge them in order.

  5. The populace is heaven's instrument to mete out vengeance.

  6. But refrain; they would bid you, and he is already suffering a worse fate than any you could mete out to him.

  7. I am vile; but His blood cleanseth from all sin; and He has washed me in it and made me mete for the inheritance of the saints in light.

  8. Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.

  9. And this day twelue monethe ye must mete here ageyn and god sende yow your lyues, and ther to ye must plyzte your trouthe.

  10. Where are ye twaine, in chambers when ye mete me there?

  11. And agayne to declare to the Jornyman what his M{r} shall doo to him, as to paye his wages mete and dryncke and other things that a Jornyman oughte to have.

  12. You mete out punishment such and such, yet so Punish the adultery of wife and priest!

  13. He was therefore there and then handed over to the relations of the murdered man so that they should mete out to him what punishment they thought fit.

  14. He took personal charge of the keys of the city and undertook to mete out severe punishment upon the offenders.

  15. I am thankful for the favor; but justice I have already meted out with this [and here he struck upon his sabre] on your necks, and I will mete out more of it if you do not give me satisfaction.

  16. If your Highness will not mete out justice, will not punish with death, then I myself will mete it out.

  17. His Majesty the King has sent us to present his favor and mete out justice.

  18. Bid him mete me at Permanscore, 235 And bring four in his cumpanie; Five erles sall cum wi' mysell, Gude reason I suld honour'd be.

  19. Desyre him mete thee at Permanscore, And bring four in his cumpanie; Five Erles sall gang yoursell befor, 205 Gude cause that you suld honour'd be.

  20. Do you think to hide her from me, or that ye will veil her and her evil deed from the reward I mete out to it?

  21. Ah, mete out the full measure of my shame.

  22. Our engraving is a portrait of a familiar character in New Zealand, chief Mete Kingi, who recently died at the age of one hundred years.

  23. Mete Kingi, as our picture shows, was no exception.

  24. And I wolde wisshe also that he were as well guylt ouer and ouer as he hathe a colour mete to take guyltynge.

  25. It is a straunge thynge to be spoken howe moche they thynke it is mete for a gentylman or a horseman to take vpon hym.

  26. Government, and to mete out equal and exact justice to all parties.

  27. God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

  28. And as for the measures of Wardhouse, wherewith they mete their cloth, there is no difference between that and the measure of danske, which in half an English ell.

  29. They have also a measure wherewith they do mete their corn, which they call a set-forth, and the half of that an osmine.

  30. With their areshine they may mete all such sorts of cloths as cometh into the land, and with the locut all such cloth, both linen and woollen, as they make themselves.

  31. With the measure wherewith thou didst mete out to me, do I mete out to thee; as with a pleasant face thou didst serve me, so shall I serve thee.

  32. Moses, as a judge, was obliged to mete out justice to the guilty, so that he had enemies among the people, men who could not forget that he had pronounced them guilty in court.

  33. Mete out to Thy children, then, justice in small measure only, but mercy in great measure.

  34. Lakit me neyther mete ne drynk in kyng Herowdes halle: Ther is a chyld in Bedlem born is beter than we alle.

  35. Lakkyt the eyther mete or drynk in kyng Herowdes halle?


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mete" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accord; administer; afford; allot; allow; appraise; appreciate; assay; assess; award; bestow; bound; boundary; bourn; calculate; calibrate; ceiling; circumscription; communicate; compass; compute; confer; confine; cutoff; deadline; deal; delimitation; determinant; dial; disburse; dispense; disperse; dispose; distribute; divide; dole; donate; end; estimate; evaluate; extend; extremity; fathom; finish; floor; frontier; gauge; gift; give; graduate; grant; heap; hedge; impart; interface; issue; lavish; limen; limit; limitation; line; march; mark; measure; mete; meter; offer; pace; pass; plumb; portion; pour; present; prize; probe; proffer; rain; rate; ration; render; serve; shower; size; slip; snow; sound; span; spoon; start; step; survey; tender; term; terminus; threshold; value; vouchsafe; weigh; yield


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    meteoric iron; meteoric stones; meteorological observations