REVIVAL in a Sentence

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I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVIVAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
revival
 n.  bringing again into activity and prominence
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
2  Thoughtfully, for I could not be here once more, and so near Agnes, without the revival of those regrets with which I had so long been occupied.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 60. AGNES
3  The street-lamps were lit, but the rain had ceased, and there was a momentary revival of light in the upper sky.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
4  It was like going to revival meetings with someone who was always being converted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
5  This is really a revival of the old Roman idea of the patron under whose protection the new-made freedman was put.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  I was a country schoolteacher then, fresh from the East, and had never seen a Southern Negro revival.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
7  There had been a "revival," and everybody had "got religion," not only the adults, but even the boys and girls.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34
9  This accounted for Mrs. Yeobright's acquiescence in the revival of an evidently sore subject.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
10  Her aunt's words had told her nothing new; but they had revived the vision of Bertha Dorset, smiling, flattered, victorious, holding her up to ridicule by insinuations intelligible to every member of their little group.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
11  She did not, however, propose to lie there prone, and Gerty's inspiration about the hats at once revived her hopes of profitable activity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
12  If it had been a simple instinct of the blood, the power of her beauty might have revived it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
13  But the birth of Hugh revived the transcendental emotion.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  I felt like a boy in their company, and all manner of forgotten interests revived in me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
15  She tried to drive him out with a heavy poker, but he overpowered and chloroformed her, and when she revived her clothing was torn and she was in a horrible condition.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  The period saw a great revival in the wine trade.
2  The US and the UK have expectations of economic revival.
3  This return to realism has produced a revival of interest in a number of artists.
4  St Peter's Church is a striking example of mission revival architecture.
5  Christians, Muslims and Druze were all grieving for the death of the Sunni Muslim billionaire who symbolized the revival of Lebanon after years of bloody civil war.
6  The revival of Ponte is lumped in with the gentrification taking place in parts of inner-city Johannesburg, where hipsters gather at a market on Sundays to coo over minimalist lampshades.
7  She ended up doing commercials, which ironically revived her acting career.
8  There is no doubt that grades have improved and interest in education has revived.
9  He revived after a rest and some food.
10  The miserable scene was revived in my mind.
11  The debate simply revived old hatreds.
12  With a glazed stare she revived for one last instant.
13  But it would be surprising if Craig, credited with having revived the 007 franchise, isn't in consideration for the next Bond movie due out late next year.
14  A Christmas release of the film was nixed last week by Sony after major movie theater chains decided not to show it, but was subsequently revived with an independent theater and digital release.
15  The economy is beginning to revive.