RESTITUTION in a Sentence

Learn RESTITUTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

11 example sentences for RESTITUTION, such as:

1. I complete the restitution by announcing my true name.
2. He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.
3. Make restitution to an innocent and unoffending child, for such he is, although the offspring of a guilty and most miserable love.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESTITUTION
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restitution
 n.  reparation; getting something back again; restoring something to its original state
Classic Sentence:
1  The reader knows, that by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
2  I complete the restitution by announcing my true name.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
3  He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one whom he sought with all possible discretion.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HA...
4  Coquenard recognized her present, and could not at first comprehend this restitution; but the visit of Porthos soon enlightened her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
5  For example: You brought a divorce case, or a restitution case, into the Consistory.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
6  I hastened to put myself between them, and to assure her that we would all take care that he should make the utmost restitution of everything he had wrongly got.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
7  I am endeavoring," he thought, "to make this man happy; I look upon this restitution as a weight thrown into the scale to balance the evil I have wrought.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
8  She had, indeed, a quick vision of returning the packet to Bertha Dorset, and of the opportunities the restitution offered; but this thought lit up abysses from which she shrank back ashamed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
9  Make restitution to an innocent and unoffending child, for such he is, although the offspring of a guilty and most miserable love.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
Example Sentence:
1  He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.
2  Tony Abbott has confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, holding him complicit in the downing of flight MH17 and calling for Russia to apologise and consider restitution.