DEALT in a Sentence

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For DEALT, below is one of 49 sentences:
He was a model steward, possessing in the highest degree the faculty of divining the needs and instincts of those he dealt with.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEALT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dealt
 v.  (past tense) take part in commercial trading of a particular commodity
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  "Gentlemen," said Dolokhov after he had dealt for some time.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIII
2  The soldiers had biscuits dealt out to them freely, and they even shared them with the other squadrons.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
3  Something vague and confused, which he could not at all account for, had come over him with the capture of that officer and the blow he had dealt him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XV
4  He was a model steward, possessing in the highest degree the faculty of divining the needs and instincts of those he dealt with.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IX
5  The conversations all dealt with public questions.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
6  He saw the frightened and then infuriated face of the dragoon who dealt the blow, the look of silent, timid reproach that boy in the fur-lined coat had turned upon him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
7  If history dealt only with external phenomena, the establishment of this simple and obvious law would suffice and we should have finished our argument.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VIII
8  Next in order have these mourners their place whose own innocent hands dealt them death, who flung away their souls in hatred of the day.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
9  Never should I now, O son, be severed from thy dear embrace; never had the insolent sword of Mezentius on my borders dealt so many cruel deaths, widowed the city of so many citizens.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
10  If you allow us to use the chance towards seeking Aeneas in Pallanteum town, you will soon descry us here at hand with the spoils of the great slaughter we have dealt.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
11  Thus the Dardanian captain dealt death over the plain, like some raging torrent stream or black whirlwind.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
12  Now the heavy hand of war dealt equal woe and counterchange of death; in even balance conquerors and conquered slew and fell; nor one nor other knows of retreat.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
13  as they dealt with official secrets.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
14  But once he had shaken off the lawyer the documents would need to be submitted straight away and, if possible, he would need to see to it that they were being dealt with every day.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
15  But the practical problem was there and had to be dealt with.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  The President said the agreement would allow other vital problems to be dealt with.
2  Complaints are dealt with by the customer services department.
3  We have dealt with that firm for many years.
4  Persistent criminals who have gone unpunished by the courts have been dealt with by local people.
5  The report criticizes the ham-fisted way in which complaints were dealt with.
6  There are several specific problems to be dealt with.
7  She dealt with the problem with consummate skill.
8  Ash can also cause long-term abrasive damage to planes that could lead to later disasters if not dealt with.
9  Though Jack's solution dealt adequately with one aspect of the problem, it was simplistic in failing to consider various complications that might arise.
10  The back-to-back accidents dealt a considerable blow to the fledgling commercial space launch industry.