RESURRECTION in a Sentence

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For RESURRECTION, 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 RESURRECTION
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resurrection
 n.  rising again; resumption of vigor; act of rising from the dead or returning to life
Classic Sentence:
1  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.
2  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.
3  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
4  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...
5  Insurrection is sometimes resurrection.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  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...
7  But Joe's spirits had gone down almost beyond resurrection.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  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.
9  She resurrected nothing but the cat.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  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
Example Sentence:
1  Still, the resurrection is the movie's only out-and-out miracle, and it lacks good explanation.
2  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.
3  The campaign for spelling reform has been resurrected.
4  Attempts to resurrect the ceasefire have already failed once.
5  It is said that this medicine can resurrect the dead.
6  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.
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.