REDEEM in a Sentence

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41 example sentences for REDEEM, such as:

1. This soothing savage had redeemed it.
2. I redeemed my watch from the pawnshop.
3. The only redeeming feature of the job is the salary.
4. The sole redeeming feature of this job is the salary.
5. The room's only redeeming feature was that it was cheap.

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 Meanings and Examples of REDEEM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
redeem
 v.  purchase back; regain possession of by payment; ransom or rescue from captivity; pay penalty; make amends for
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
2  Tell down thy ransom, I say, and rejoice that at such rate thou canst redeem thee from a dungeon, the secrets of which few have returned to tell.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  She performed her task with a graceful and dignified simplicity and modesty, which might, even in more civilized days, have served to redeem it from whatever might seem repugnant to female delicacy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Without treasure thou mayst as well hope to redeem thy child from the clutches of Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, as to shoot a stag-royal with a headless shaft.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  She determined to redeem her error so far as it might yet be possible.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
7  The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  They offered eighteen hundred dollars to redeem her; and some there were who offered to give, that would not have much left after the gift; but the fiend of a slave-trader was inexorable.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  This ring would certainly only recall very bitter remembrances; then we shall never be masters of three hundred pistoles to redeem it, so that we really should lose two hundred pistoles by the bargain.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
11  Accept, dear Madam, this token of my reverence for your courage and do not think that your sacrifice has been in vain, for this ring has been redeemed at ten times its value.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  But the flat, squashed look of the place was partly redeemed by the two fine old oaks which shaded it and a dusty- leaved magnolia, splotched with white blossoms, standing beside the front steps.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  Her face had the air of unwholesome refinement which ill-health and over-work may produce, but its common prettiness was redeemed by the strong and generous curve of the lips.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
14  This soothing savage had redeemed it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
15  And sure as I am a Christian woman," said Mrs. Shelby, "you shall be redeemed as soon as I can any way bring together means.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  Make sure you know exactly what you will be paying back when you plan to redeem the item.
2  Work is the way that people seek to redeem their lives from futility.
3  He was trying to redeem himself for his earlier failure.
4  I redeemed my watch from the pawnshop.
5  A poor game was redeemed in the second half by a couple of superb goals from Anthony Edwards.
6  Olivier's performance redeemed an otherwise second-rate play.
7  One of the perks of business travel is frequent-flyer points; a trip may end with a large dose of jet lag, but at least some points will be earned, which can be redeemed for benefits worth 1.5 cents for each.
8  The fall from grace is embodied in capitalism; man is redeemed as the proletariat rises up against its exploiters and creates a communist utopia.
9  The only redeeming feature of the job is the salary.
10  The one redeeming feature of the scheme was its low cost to the council.
11  The sole redeeming feature of this job is the salary.
12  The sole redeeming feature of your behaviour is that you're not denying it.
13  The hotel had a single redeeming feature - it was cheap.
14  The room's only redeeming feature was that it was cheap.