Sample Sentences forrespite (editor-reviewed)
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The cool evening breeze offered a welcome respite from the afternoon heat.respite = break
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The weekend provided a much-needed respite from her busy school schedule.
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It's as though for the last few days, sheltered by the rocks and the rain and Cato's preoccupation with Thresh, we were given a respite, a holiday of sorts. (source)respite = temporary break
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The Countess was of a mind that dinner should provide one with respite from life's trials and tribulations. (source)respite = rest or temporary relief
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I could still feel his spit in my mouth, and the respite the hand sanitizer had provided was dwindling away. (source)respite = relief
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The president retires to Virginia for a respite every September. (source)respite = time of rest
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The sky was a deep, thundery grey and it was a relief to gain the warmth and light of the changing rooms, even if they knew the respite was only temporary. (source)respite = relief or break
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The only respites were when Mark, the utility boy, came in.† (source)
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Bending once more over the respited victim, he assured himself that he was sleeping heavily, and then abandoned his immediate purpose in obedience alone to the suggestions of a more crafty policy.† (source)
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They bring the great the chance of glory, and the lowly a respite from their woes.† (source)
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She knew she was heading somewhere for another of her brief respites from Orlando's paperness.† (source)
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This 'calling down' is calling down to their former judgment, when a woman has been respited for her belly, but proves not to be with child, or if she has been with child, and has been brought to bed.† (source)
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The respite from the battle felt too good to be true.† (source)
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A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm.† (source)
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However it was, this they all agree in, that my mother pleaded her belly, and being found quick with child, she was respited for about seven months; in which time having brought me into the world, and being about again, she was called down, as they term it, to her former judgment, but obtained the favour of being transported to the plantations, and left me about half a year old; and in bad hands, you may be sure.† (source)
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Whatever it was she was doing, it seemed to be giving him just a small respite from that.† (source)
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