REVIVE in a Sentence

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120 example sentences for REVIVE, such as:

1. A dead man will never revive.
2. The economy is beginning to revive.
3. The debate simply revived old hatreds.
4. He revived after a rest and some food.
5. vegetation and to revive in the spring.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVIVE
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revive
 v.  restore from a depressed; renew
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  I felt also sentiments of joy and affection revive in my bosom; my gloom disappeared, and in a short time I became as cheerful as before I was attacked by the fatal passion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  The sun sank beneath the horizon as we landed, and as I touched the shore I felt those cares and fears revive which soon were to clasp me and cling to me forever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
4  Among such friends, however, and such flattery, he did revive.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49
5  I do not wish to revive the memory of past differences, or of past outrages.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
6  He tried to read, but he could not revive the very vivid interest he had felt before in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
7  Standing at the first litany, Levin attempted to revive in himself his youthful recollections of the intense religious emotion he had passed through between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
8  He did not, as he had had to do with previous attempts to find comforting arguments, need to revive a whole chain of thought to find the feeling.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
9  Come, come," said the young man, "a glass of wine, father, will revive you.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. Father and Son.
10  I promise you it affords me as little pleasure to revive it as it does you.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
11  August rolled by in unceasing efforts on the part of Morrel to renew his credit or revive the old.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
12  vegetation and to revive in the spring.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
13  'Now listen to me,' said the dying woman aloud, as if making a great effort to revive one latent spark of energy.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  Lady Russell loved them all; but it was only in Anne that she could fancy the mother to revive again.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  He soon breathed distinctly, and again and again did she attempt to revive her husband by the same means; but Wildeve gave no sign.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  The economy is beginning to revive.
2  This movie is intended to revive her flagging career.
3  He is seeking advice on how to revive the stagnant economy.
4  The government devalued the currency to try to revive the flagging economy.
5  A dead man will never revive.
6  With him I was at perfect ease, because I knew I suited him; all I said or did seemed either to console or revive him.
7  There are hopes that this could help to revive the internet and technology sector which has shown to depress since the dotcom crash of 2000.
8  Despite her claims of representing Indians, media reports here accuse her of only trying to revive a failing career for the money.
9  He has hosted Shia clerics from Iraq, plans to send planes full of Shia pilgrims to the country's holy cities, and dangle billions in investment to revive industry in the south.
10  She ended up doing commercials, which ironically revived her acting career.
11  There is no doubt that grades have improved and interest in education has revived.
12  He revived after a rest and some food.
13  The miserable scene was revived in my mind.
14  The debate simply revived old hatreds.
15  With a glazed stare she revived for one last instant.