Reprieve used in a sentence, 18 examples

Reprieve in a sentence as a noun

Submissions like these are a nice reprieve from the usual start-up ****.

But this is what led to the Endangered Species Act that granted the whales a reprieve.

Given this, splitting seems like a big step for a temporary reprieve.

A judge has granted her a reprieve [1] based on freedom of speech and freedom of religion grounds.

Nature grants us a huge reprieve in that Netwonian mechanics becomes relevant at this scale.

The programmer stereotype, if he was lucky, might have found reprieve in a monastery or something.

This can include:+ Lunches or dinners - Going out to a restaurant together can give your team a reprieve from the stresses of work, while strengthening bonds.

I looked over your comment history and I can't understand why this would be, so I'm alerting you in case you want to ask PG for a reprieve.

You can try to grow thick skin at first, but over time, even that thicker skin will be eroded and you will need a reprieve before you can recover.

Reprieve in a sentence as a verb

Yes, you could throw up a smokescreen and dodge out of the spotlight cast on your bad science today, but that will only be a momentary reprieve of the pain.

I keep wishing that there was some kind of reprieve, like if I could just get ahead of the curve long enough, that maybe naturally I would find time to invent stuff.

Nature has granted us a reprieve here in that biological activity is independent of what goes on at this scale.

There is also a noticeable absence of Richard Gere.“In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve.

The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute.

That's not to say wealth is a golden ticket that affords you a reprieve from any illness but it certainly helps to prevent you from being lumped in with all the "average" cases, to be one of the uncommon cases that "defies" the usual outcomes.

I could argue that perhaps there isn't more to life than being happy, and what a meaningful life brings is a more complex form of happiness, a lasting reprieve from the existential terror that envelopes us between acts of isolated pleasure-seeking.

Nature grants us a huge reprieve in that we can safely ignore most atomic behavior: only the valence orbitals have interesting interactions, and nuclei are much heavier than electrons, so we can model the electrons' behavior independently.

This is silly, benchmarking against normal is the only reprieve I get from worrying that I'm 24 and knowing that I am thus too old to have done a lot of things that I feel I should have by now, like publish a fiction book or two, found a successful startup, publish a couple of academic articles of the transformative kind to computer science and so on.

Reprieve definitions

noun

a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort

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