RENEWAL in a Sentence

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For RENEWAL, below is one of 193 sentences:
The only hope of renewal lay in the little bottle at her bed-side; and how much longer that hope would last she dared not conjecture.

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 Meanings and Examples of RENEWAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
renewal
 n.  act of renewing; filling again by supplying what has been used up
Classic Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
1  She usually contrived to avoid being at home during the season of domestic renewal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
2  Few women took the trouble to make themselves agreeable to Dorset, and Lily had been kind to him at Bellomont, and was now smiling on him with a divine renewal of kindness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
3  She uttered a smiling acceptance, hailing in the renewal of the tie an escape from Trenor's importunities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
4  This enmity, however, had apparently expired in a renewal of friendliness between the two women.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
5  Lily's nature was incapable of such renewal: she could feel other demands only through her own, and no pain was long vivid which did not press on an answering nerve.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  She lay back, looking about the poor slit of a room with a renewal of physical distaste.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
7  And this was the very place to bring out the completeness of the renewal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
8  She had been plunged into new scenes, and had found in them a renewal of old hopes and ambitions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
9  She had not tried to see Dorset alone: she had positively shrunk from a renewal of his confidences.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
10  The drug gave her a momentary illusion of complete renewal, from which she drew strength to take up her daily work.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  The only hope of renewal lay in the little bottle at her bed-side; and how much longer that hope would last she dared not conjecture.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
12  At first their progress was slow and guarded, as though they entered with reluctance amid the horrors of the post, or dreaded the renewal of its frightful incidents.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
13  With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  She would not even wish for a renewal of his attentions.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
15  Be not alarmed, madam, on receiving this letter, by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments or renewal of those offers which were last night so disgusting to you.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  Last month's victory has given him a renewed zest for the game.
17  The mission left the community leaders with a renewed sense of vigor and confidence.
18  We went about our task with renewed enthusiasm.
19  The threat of renewed civil war looms ahead.
20  A sudden renewed interest in action movies from the early nineties whose titles consist of three words, one of which is usually either “kill”, “law” or “justice”.
21  A quick dip in the pool could invigorate Meg, and with renewed energy she got back to work.
22  It could renew calls for Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate alleged campaign wrongdoing.
23  If you can't finish the book by then, you must come and renew it.
24  Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
25  As a result, firms employing them need to recruit frequently to replace those who choose not to renew their contracts.
26  We went to renew our monthly season ticket.
27  A lot of cost of maintenance goes into renew brake of my old car.
28  In his speech today, Mr. Arafat is expected to renew his call for an end to suicide bomb attacks.
29  The Argentinian president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, used a meeting of the council this week to renew demands for talks over the sovereignty of the Falklands.
30  Falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.