RESERVE in a Sentence

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For RESERVE, below is one of 223 sentences:
Although she appeared to acquiesce to her employer's suggestions, I could tell she had reservations about the changes he wanted made.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESERVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reserve
 n.  lack of enthusiasm; skeptical caution; something saved for future use; self-restraint in expression
Classic Sentence: (172 in 12 pages)
1  She was rather surprised, therefore, when the silence remained unbroken, and Jo assumed a patronizing air, which decidedly aggravated Meg, who in turn assumed an air of dignified reserve and devoted herself to her mother.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
2  They did feel it, yet neither spoke of it, for often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
3  Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  I learnt so much from himself in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  Besides, I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over, and my frankness was congealed beneath it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  The particulars I reserve till we meet; it is enough to know they are discovered.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 49
9  It was owing to him, to his reserve and want of proper consideration, that Wickham's character had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been received and noticed as he was.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
10  Perhaps there was some truth in this; though I doubt whether his reserve, or anybody's reserve, can be answerable for the event.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
11  He retained a great deal of the reserve for which his boyhood was remarkable; and that served to repress all startling demonstrations of feeling.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  I think that he would have acknowledged anything, now, without reserve, but he wanted to talk about Daisy.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
15  Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  Although she appeared to acquiesce to her employer's suggestions, I could tell she had reservations about the changes he wanted made.
17  I reserved a room for tonight.
18  His strongest criticism is reserved for his father, whom he disliked intensely.
19  We now state, is the last before the break reserved.
20  British men are often seen as being reserved and unemotional.
21  Seats, or sometimes entire tables, were reserved.
22  Any item can be reserved on payment of a deposit.
23  I've come to collect my tickets - I reserved them by phone yesterday in the name of Tremin.
24  But many streets in areas formerly reserved for whites still recall apartheid and colonial figures.
25  A double room with a balcony overlooking the sea had been reserved for him.
26  The star has a ski slope reserved exclusively for her.
27  The museum's main gallery is reserved for the sculptures.
28  He said, "The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
29  She was demure and reserved, a nice modest girl whom any young man would be proud to take home to his mother.
30  He is very reserved before his lawyer comes, you cannot get a full sentence from his lips.