RESURRECT in a Sentence

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For RESURRECT, below is one of 17 sentences:
I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESURRECT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
resurrect
 v.  bring back to life; rise from the dead; bring back into practice, notice, or use
Classic Sentence:
1  She resurrected nothing but the cat.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She looked as if she had been resurrected from an old stage-wardrobe and the cheaper parts of the hall made fun of her high wailing notes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
3  I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
4  Tell 'em it's the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.'
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.
5  It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much so.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
7  Insurrection is sometimes resurrection.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
8  Dawn and resurrection are synonymous.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
9  But Joe's spirits had gone down almost beyond resurrection.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  He turned blue all over, and died in the hope of a glorious resurrection.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
Example Sentence:
1  Attempts to resurrect the ceasefire have already failed once.
2  It is said that this medicine can resurrect the dead.
3  Kasim Reed could heal the sick, cast out demons, resurrect the dead, and walk on water, and he wouldn't be able to avoid the accusation of racism.
4  The campaign for spelling reform has been resurrected.
5  Still, the resurrection is the movie's only out-and-out miracle, and it lacks good explanation.
6  Jesus taught that life does not end after our bodies die. He made this startling claim: I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again.
7  At huge rallies, German evangelist Bonnke claimed to heal people using the powers of God, and he also told followers he had witnessed resurrections.