Sample Sentences for
renaissance
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

renaissance as in:  a renaissance

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When she was elected, she promised a renaissance in Detroit.
renaissance = a revival or renewed interest
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    Didn't you tell me that the word 'renaissance' meant rebirth?  (source)
    renaissance = a revival of learning and culture
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    The improvement in Williams's fortunes paralleled the renaissance of Savannah's historic district.  (source)
    renaissance = a revival or renewed interest in something
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    A man driving by pulled his car over to the curb and looked in wonderment at the renaissance of a building that he had passed many times and known only as a crumbling ruin.  (source)
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    Therefore, indications were that one of the city-states was undergoing a renaissance.  (source)
    renaissance = a revival or renewed interest in something
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    I walk through the aisles, passing out a list of discussion questions on the poem "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Mil-lay.†  (source)
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    One feature of the downtown renaissance is the conversion of dilapidated buildings into swanky lofts, boutique shops and upscale restaurants.  (source)
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    Steve went away with the German woman to Indiana, where, at first, came news of opulence, fatness, ease, and furs (with photographs), later of brawls with her honest brothers, and talk of divorce, reunion and renascence.†  (source)
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    Of all the people who have ever lived, in all the eras in history ....we are in that narrow window of time during which we will bear witness to our ultimate renaissance.  (source)
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    I trust he will work that vein further, and recognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bearable after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen.†  (source)
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    An ad appeared in Lunaya Pravda announcing lecture by Dr. Adam Selene on Poetry and Arts in Luna: a New Renaissance.  (source)
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    On that Saturday, Indian summer had descended over the eastern seaboard, bringing shirt-sleeve weather, flies, a renascence of Good Humor men, and to most people that absurdly deceptive feeling that the onset of winter is a wicked illusion.†  (source)
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    Yeah, well, I don't think we'll be hanging around to see if there's a renaissance in thieving going on.  (source)
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    A religious renaissance, some call it.  (source)
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Renaissance as in:  The Renaissance

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We're visiting the museum to see the exhibit of Renaissance art.
Renaissance = the period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
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    The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution were some of the major signposts on Western civilization's road to modernity.  (source)
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    He's the sort of elf who goes to Renaissance festivals.  (source)
    Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
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    We ought to cover the Renaissance and the seventeenth century as well.  (source)
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    Early in January, when we had all just returned from the Christmas holidays, a recruiter from the United States ski troops showed a film to the senior class in the Renaissance Room.  (source)
    Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
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    Because they don't have to study un-Islamic subjects like English literature or Italian Renaissance painting.  (source)
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    There was something Renaissance about the pose, but it was princes I thought of, not coiffed and ringleted maidens.  (source)
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    I remembered reading that some people thought that the Renaissance had partly been due to the introduction of coffee in Europe, to the invigorating effect that caffeine had on the psyche.  (source)
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    One of them was Armstrong House, a monumental Italian Renaissance palazzo directly across Bull Street from the staid Oglethorpe Club.  (source)
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    Here he had assembled all his treasures that had escaped being plundered by the Germans: a wide couch covered with a kelim, two valuable old chairs, a charming little Renaissance chest of drawers, a Persian rug, some old weapons, a few paintings and all kinds of small objects he had collected over the years in different parts of Europe, each of them a little work of art in itself and a feast for the eyes.  (source)
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    I was a man of the Renaissance that evening—of Browning's renaissance.  (source)
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    Despite the fading of memories and technologies, Rowan managed to prosper like a great city of the Renaissance rather than some Dark Ages backwater.  (source)
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    With his bright hair and the way he carried himself, he could have been some Renaissance prince.  (source)
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    Mr. Levin, we are rather busy studying the Italian Renaissance.  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    You're in a hospital on Renaissance, baby.  (source)
    Renaissance = the name of a place in this novel
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    He sent out three notices about the event, none of which Mae, of the Renaissance, Team Six, answered.  (source)
    Renaissance = the name of a building in this novel
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    I'm going to expand the mills-and if she can give me three-day freight service to Colorado, I'll give you a race for who's going to be the capital of the Renaissance!  (source)
    Renaissance = the name of a town in this novel
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    Mr. Renaissance was charming and exotic, and she'd fallen for him quickly.  (source)
    Renaissance = a name in this novel
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    His boyhood had been saturated with Ruskin, and he had read all the latest books: John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee's "Euphorion," the essays of P. G. Hamerton, and a wonderful new volume called "The Renaissance" by Walter Pater.  (source)
    Renaissance = part of a book title
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    I see no purpose in doing Renaissance villas.  (source)
    Renaissance = the name of a real estate project in this novel
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    Plus your research material's at the library on Renaissance V. Why here?  (source)
    Renaissance = the name of a place in this novel
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    "You'll be in the Renaissance, over here," Renata said, pointing across the lawn, to a building of glass and oxidized copper.  (source)
    Renaissance = the name of a building in this novel
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    Avery had never bothered to come after her, nor had Mr. Renaissance.  (source)
    Renaissance = a name in this novel
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    This is the capital of the Renaissance.  (source)
    Renaissance = a period named in this novel that is based upon the common noun and refers to a notable renaissance in the way that the European Renaissance was notable
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    She looked young but not noticeably younger than when they had waved goodbye on Renaissance Vector.  (source)
    Renaissance = the name of a place in this novel
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    They stood before the Renaissance, another building with a forty-foot atrium, a Calder mobile turning slowly above.  (source)
    Renaissance = the name of a building in this novel
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    Quickly and calmly, she told him about Mr. Renaissance.  (source)
    Renaissance = a name in this novel
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