deliberate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with deliberate, each labelled with its topic.

• The court drew a line between a deliberate act and an accident, and the whole sentence turned on that word.

  Law

• Every drip in the canvas was deliberate; the painter mapped each one in pencil before opening a single tin.

  Art

• The slow pacing of the opening chapter is deliberate, and the designers said so in a long developer diary.

  Gaming

• The foul was deliberate, a way to stop the clock, and the coach signaled it from the bench.

  Basketball

• The delay was deliberate; the company waited for the rival's launch so its own price cut would land harder.

  Business

• The rough concrete is deliberate, left unpainted so the marks of the wooden forms stay visible.

  Architecture

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains deliberate. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• acknowledgement
• mature
• locating
• posed
• absorption
• commence
• anticipate
• commission
• trivial
• revolution
• temporal
• undermine