Sample Sentences for
revere
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    Under Richard Nixon, there was a loss of reverence for the position of the president.
    reverence = respect and admiration
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    She reveres human life.
    reveres = deeply respects and admires
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    She reveres democracy, but abhors politics.
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    We can't let reverence for the past keep us from planning for the future. Indeed, we dishonor those who preceded us if we rest on their legacy.
    reverence = respect and admiration
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    Most Chinese revered Mao.
    revered = deeply respected and admired
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    Pat Tillman is revered for giving up a $3 million football contract to join the military after 9/11.
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    Hume argued that if children were taught religious reverence and intellectual humility, they would not fall victim to the philosophical arrogance that leads many to abandon religion.
    reverence = respect and admiration
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    Reverently, he placed the shoe box in my lap.  (source)
    Reverently = in a very respectful manner
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    Jem's voice was reverent.  (source)
    reverent = displaying feelings of deep respect, admiration, or awe
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    What would Peeta think of the irreverent banter that passes between us as we break the law each day?  (source)
    irreverent = showing a lack of respect for things respected by most people
    standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverent means not and reverses the meaning of reverent. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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    ...I revere them.  (source)
    revere = deeply respect and admire
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    a woman of whom he spoke in reverential terms  (source)
    reverential = with feelings of deep respect and admiration
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    To one brought up as I had been this irreverence for the Old People was difficult to take.  (source)
    irreverence = lack of respect
    standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irreverence means not and reverses the meaning of reverence. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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    Revere listened gravely; this was not the first rumor to come his way that day.  (source)
    Revere = Paul Revere
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    This thought was of a broken-off piling which had jutted from the sand at Revere Beach.  (source)
    Revere = the name of a place
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    At ten o'clock that night, Warren and Revere met.  (source)
    Revere = Paul Revere
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    His mother and father had taken him to Revere Beach often when he was a kid, and he had always insisted that they spread their blanket where he could keep an eye on that piling, which looked to him like the single jutting fang of a buried monster.  (source)
    Revere = the name of a place
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    Revere was spirited across Boston Harbor to the ferry landing at Charlestown.  (source)
    Revere = Paul Revere
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    These things all came at widely spaced intervals, but then as the pain itself began not to recede but to erode (as that Revere Beach piling must itself have eroded, he thought, because nothing is forever , although the child he had been would have scoffed at such heresy), outside things began to impinge more rapidly until the objective world, with all its freight of memory, experience, and prejudice, had pretty much re-established itself.  (source)
    Revere = the name of a place
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    Revere was carrying a sensational piece of news: the British were coming.  (source)
    Revere = Paul Revere
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    Had that been at Revere Beach?  (source)
    Revere = the name of a place
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    So why did Revere succeed where Dawes failed?  (source)
    Revere = Paul Revere
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    Revere's news tipped and Dawes's didn't because of the differences between the two men.  (source)
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    Revere became a kind of unofficial clearing house for the anti-British forces.  (source)
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    Others — who may not have known Revere personally — might have been skeptical about the accuracy of his information.  (source)
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    Revere and his close friend Joseph Warren became more and more convinced that the British were about to make the major move that had long been rumored — to march to the town of Lexington, northwest of Boston, to arrest the colonial leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams, and then on to the town of Concord to seize the stores of guns and ammunition that some of the local colonial militia had stored there.  (source)
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