Sample Sentences for
revelation
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    I mean, to me this was a major revelation, and he was acting like it was no big deal.  (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
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    Dill had seen Dracula, a revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of respect.  (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown
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    Like most humans in the grip of revelation, Hans Hubermann stood with a certain numbness.  (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
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    The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.  (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
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    Iko's fan was whirring like mad as if her processor could barely keep up with all these revelations.†  (source)
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    It was as revelatory, exciting, intense, and surreal as Mayor Schmoke promised.†  (source)
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    IN THE WAKE OF the Josh revelation, I'd forgotten all about Kitty.  (source)
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    Once he got past the dense language, the books Jen had loaned him were full of revelations.†  (source)
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    The incident was important only because it was self-revelatory.†  (source)
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    And more—this revelation pricked his memories.  (source)
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    I find it hard to believe in these whisperings, these revelations, though I always do at the time.†  (source)
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    Malcolm was idly wandering around the station, stopping to stare at things Maia thought of as everyday—a banister railing, a cracked tile in the wall, a pane of window glass—as if they were revelatory.†  (source)
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    My Lady, when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.  (source)
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    I thought of the battle described in the book of Revelation, and my heartbeat stepped up a notch.  (source)
    Revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    Aristotle goes only part of the way because he didn't know of the Christian revelation.  (source)
    revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
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    That evening he read aloud from the Bible, familiar passages from Isaiah, Luke, and the Book of Revelation, about wars and rumors of wars.  (source)
    Revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    I thought I had part of the Book of Ecclesiastes and maybe a little of Revelation, but I haven't even that now.  (source)
    Revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    Her eyes were hot, as if she had just sat down and read the Book of Revelations straight through.  (source)
    Revelations = a book of The Bible
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    Sometimes, just before sundown, just as the blue of the sky began darkening to violet, we had these wild, electric-lined, Maxfield Parrish clouds rolling out gold and white into the desert like Divine Revelation leading the Mormons west.  (source)
    Revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    I sat just as still as I could and the text was Revelations, third chapter, second and third verses.  (source)
    Revelations = a book of The Bible
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    And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up…. If any man have an ear, let him hear. --REVELATION 13:1  (source)
    REVELATION = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process.  (source)
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    For the evening reading before prayers, he selected the twenty-first chapter of Revelation.  (source)
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    And now, with the End of the World at hand, and the skies darkening at dawn, and the fires of Revelation raining down and setting the rigging ablaze, Captain Roberts tied himself to the ship's wheel as the sea rose below him and felt the Sweet Judy lifted into the sky as if by some almighty hand.  (source)
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    Winslow jumped to Revelation.  (source)
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    "Oh, heavens, the Book of Revelation is a mess!" the dean said.  (source)
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