RELIEF in a Sentence

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A second relief boat, the Isabella , has arrived on Tikopia, and with it the first major shipment of food, water and shelter.

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 Meanings and Examples of RELIEF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
relief
 n.  easing of burden or distress, such as pain or anxiety; release from post or duty
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But for the moment his sense of relief was so great as to preclude all other feelings.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  What a silly thing to say to a man, thought Scarlett, ready to giggle with relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Ashley's small even writing leaped up at her as she read, "My dear wife," and she breathed in relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  Scarlett had no qualm of conscience as she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Scarlett had no shame at all, only an active feeling of relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  Scarlett held wobbling heads that parched lips might drink, poured buckets of water over dusty, feverish bodies and into open wounds that the men might enjoy a brief moment's relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  When he had finished she sent him off to the back yard to play and watched him toddle across the straggling grass to his playhouse with great relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  She looked up and saw Prissy leaning out of the upstairs window, fright and worry written on her face; but in an instant they were wiped away in relief as she saw her mistress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  She drew a long breath of relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  "Oh, yes," cried Scarlett in relief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  She sighed with relief and irritation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Then Scarlett saw with relief the faint rise and fall of her shallow breathing and knew that Melanie had survived the night.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  It was a relief to hear the truth put so baldly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  She lay quiet for a moment, eyes closed, sighing with relief, and heard the slobbery gurgle of the baby near by and the reassuring sound of Wade's hiccoughing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  They sighed with relief at the welcome news and laughed, slapping their thighs when Scarlett told them of Sally's wild ride and how neatly she had cleared their hedge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  The booklet contains information on pain relief during labour.
17  She can always be relied on to provide comic relief at a boring party.
18  All I remember of childbirth was the unbearable pain and the relief when it was all over.
19  News of their safety came as a great relief.
20  Afterwards I felt a great sense of relief.
21  Charities are non-profit-making organizations and get tax relief.
22  Even though the Red Cross did allocate a large sum for the relief of the sufferers of the disaster, many people perished.
23  A second relief boat, the Isabella , has arrived on Tikopia, and with it the first major shipment of food, water and shelter.
24  America and Britain oppose this amendment but some other European countries, in particular Germany, have always been lukewarm on debt relief and might be swayed.
25  As news of the calamity spread, offers of relief poured in to the stricken community.
26  An outburst of relief as Stardust finally landed in the Utah desert after a four and a half billion kilometre journey that had taken the craft half way out to Jupiter and through the tail of a comet.
27  The influx of refugees into the country has taxed the relief agencies severely.
28  As he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief.
29  "Was there any lady of the house?" "Nay, there was naught but her, and she was housekeeper;" and of her, reader, I could not bear to ask the relief for want of which I was sinking; I could not yet beg; and again I crawled away.
30  That Gerry finally has let go of his resentment is an enormous relief to me.