RESTORATION in a Sentence

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239 example sentences for RESTORATION, such as:

1. The military regime has promised to restore democracy soon.
2. They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house.
3. Not tears can restore the lost, not everyone is worth your pay.
4. She may not have the money to maintain or restore her property.
5. The government promises to restore the economy to full strength.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESTORATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
restoration
 n.  act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  s restoration, a visit was made by the inspector-general of prisons.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
2  When the emperor returned, he wrote, implored, threatened, and so energetically, that on the second restoration he was persecuted as a Bonapartist.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
3  This petition to Napoleon, kept back by Villefort, had become, under the second restoration, a terrible weapon against him in the hands of the king's attorney.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
4  Yes: for her restoration I longed, far more than for that of my lost sight.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, every thing, to him.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
6  Their manner of living, even when the restoration of peace dismissed them to a home, was unsettled in the extreme.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61
7  Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Then,' said Traddles, 'you must prepare to disgorge all that your rapacity has become possessed of, and to make restoration to the last farthing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
9  The restoration of the independence of his race was the idol of his heart, to which he had willingly sacrificed domestic happiness and the interests of his own son.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer were, however, in London, on their way to that long voyage which had been recommended for the restoration of his shattered nerves.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
11  The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds itself on its guard.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
12  Besides this, as every great action bears its recompense with it, the brave exploit of d'Artagnan resulted in the restoration of the tranquility he had lost.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
13  At this Salius fills with loud clamour the whole concourse of the vast theatre, and the lords who looked on in front, demanding restoration of his defrauded prize.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
14  We may, perhaps, succeed in restoring her to them, if she is not obstinate: but I trace lines of force in her face which make me sceptical of her tractability.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Anxiety on Jane's behalf was another prevailing concern; and Mr. Darcy's explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion, heightened the sense of what Jane had lost.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house.
17  According to the packet, these vitamin pills will restore lost vitality.
18  The United Nations has used/exerted/exercised its authority to restore peace in the area.
19  Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
20  His country desperately needs Western aid to restore its ailing economy.
21  A fall in unemployment will help to restore consumer confidence.
22  The measures are intended to restore public confidence in the economy.
23  The government promises to restore the economy to full strength.
24  Schwartz opened the conversation by saying that the Agency had decided to reinstate the employee and restore his clearance.
25  Not tears can restore the lost, not everyone is worth your pay.
26  It's now up to the government's propaganda machine to restore the prime minister's image.
27  She may not have the money to maintain or restore her property.
28  The military regime has promised to restore democracy soon.
29  The inhabitants have voted overwhelmingly to restore the city's original name of Chemnitz.
30  It was now obvious that he was hastening to restore the keys to their owner.