REFRESHMENT in a Sentence

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158 example sentences for REFRESHMENT, such as:

1. She felt refreshed after her sleep.
2. I refreshed myself with a cup of coffee.
3. One of them was always taking refreshment.
4. Tickets include the price of refreshments.
5. We have to make a small charge for refreshments.

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 Meanings and Examples of REFRESHMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
refreshment
 n.  activity that refreshes and recreates; snacks and drinks served as a light meal
Classic Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  But soon even these intervals of consciousness ended, and she lay hour after hour, tossing to and fro, with incoherent words on her lips, or sank into a heavy sleep which brought her no refreshment.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
2  The bread and cheese was presently brought in and distributed, to the high delight and refreshment of the whole school.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  She danced next with an officer, and had the refreshment of talking of Wickham, and of hearing that he was universally liked.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
5  On Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner's coming up they were all pressed to go into the house and take some refreshment; but this was declined, and they parted on each side with utmost politeness.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43
6  I let the poor things converse unmolested, till I supposed the songs were going to cease, and the singers to get some refreshment: then I clambered up the ladder to warn her.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  The moon shone bright; a sprinkling of snow covered the ground, and I reflected that she might, possibly, have taken it into her head to walk about the garden, for refreshment.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
9  I then took some refreshment, and went to my rest.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
10  I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clew, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIII
11  When Mr. Wopsle had imparted to me all that he could recall or I extract, and when I had treated him to a little appropriate refreshment, after the fatigues of the evening, we parted.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVII
12  One of them was always taking refreshment.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
13  Dispatching this refreshment by the way, I went in the direction my friend had indicated, and walked on a good distance without coming to the houses he had mentioned.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
14  I never did in my days behold anything like Mowcher as she stood upon the dining table, intensely enjoying this refreshment, rubbing busily at Steerforth's head, and winking at me over it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
15  To escape from this painful feeling he went away into the other room where there was nobody except the waiters at the refreshment bar.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 28
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  If you'll follow me, I'm sure you're parched from the journey and wouldn't mind a bit of refreshment.
2  Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure--an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?
3  A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
4  I refreshed myself with a cup of coffee.
5  She felt refreshed after her sleep.
6  I find it so refreshing to work with young people in this department.
7  It's refreshing to meet someone who is so dedicated to their work.
8  It's refreshing to hear somebody speaking common sense.
9  His sportsmanship and style of play is refreshing.
10  The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, had roused her powers among them.
11  White is also cooling and refreshing, which is why people love to wear it in hot weather.
12  Light refreshments will be served during the break.
13  We have to make a small charge for refreshments.
14  Tickets include the price of refreshments.
15  Optional but preferable is access to refreshments in a coffee shop.