Use relief in a sentence
Sentences starting with relief
- Relief crossed the woman's face. [11]
- Relief was plain on her face. [9]
- Relief surged over him. [13]
- Relief for overtasked eyes and brain from study and sightseeing is necessary, or we shall become idiotic sure enough. [5]
Sentences ending with relief
- How gladly Eva would have afforded her relief! [10]
- I took it, with a sigh of relief. [9]
- In fact, the water was already pouring over the land, and the messengers had seen the vessels appointed to bring relief. [10]
- His twitching nose was pleading more urgently than ever for relief. [5]
- A cheery fire was burning in the grate, and I sat down before it with a comforting sense of relief. [5]
- The gaiety and warmth of the hut erected in the Public Gardens which houses the British Officers' Club were a relief. [9]
- Oh, had you waited till tomorrow, or until I had returned, some kind window would have been opened to her relief. [5]
- I felt a tremendous sense of relief. [9]
- Then he returned to the window with a look of relief. [11]
- D.W.] The blow to her father was terrible, but heavy as it was, one may perhaps understand that her passing in that swift, painless way must have afforded him a measure of relief. [5]
Short sentences using relief
- Where was the relief? [10]
- Finished in high relief. [6]
- That was a relief. [4]
- He wrote asking for relief. [5]
- It would be a relief. [2]
- That meant relief. [5]
- Send the relief. [10]
Sentences containing relief two or more times
- At its close a mingled feeling of relief and anxiety was felt by all; relief that their favorite companion had escaped so fearful a danger, anxiety for the brave young Lydian who had risked his life to save him. [10]
More example sentences with the word relief in them
- Since last March, you know, I am carrying a mighty load, solitary and alone--General Grant's book--and must carry it till the first volume is 30 days old (Jan. 1st) before the relief money will begin to flow in. [5]
- In any other year of these 33 the relief would have been simple: go where you can cut your cloth to fit your income. [5]
- His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
- Charley heard her words, for the window was open, and he listened and watched now with an infinite relief in his look. [11]
- Prince Andrew sighed with relief, smiled, and held out his hand. [2]
- His face lighted with relief at sight of me. [9]
- A picture flooded with light, standing forth in radiant relief against the darkness of the heavy, majestic forms surrounding it in a wide circle. [10]
- Adrian hurried home with his vial, and in his joy at bringing the sick lady relief, forgot her headache and struck the knocker violently against the door. [10]
- His wife agreed with him in these moments, and said it was a great relief not to have that tiresome old German coming about. [8]
- And Mr. Weill, with a sigh of relief, paid his fine. [9]
- He turned away with a feeling of relief, however, for this gossip with the Huguenot maid would no doubt interest her, give new direction to her warm sympathies, which if roused in one thing were ever more easily roused in others. [11]
- When the dome which conceals Hell from the sight of the angels is opened, it is for the relief of the condemned. [10]
- Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
- Some of them were altogether too much pleased with the success of the Temperance Society and the Association for the Relief of the Poor. [6]
- Very strict precautions were adopted to prevent those who thought more of the golden angel hung round the neck by a white ribbon, than of relief of their bodily infirmities, from making too many calls, as they sometimes attempted to do. [6]
- Every year expeditions went out holy grailing, and next year relief expeditions went out to hunt for _them_. [5]
- We were glad we got him elected before relief came. [5]
- His mental life was too rich, and the unburdening of his anxious soul too great a relief for that. [10]
- Only by degrees was she able to get sufficient control of herself to begin her copying, when she found a certain relief in action--her hands flying over the keys, tearing off the finished sheets, and replacing them with others. [9]
- He said he was a scion of a ducal house in England, and had been shipped to Canada for the house's relief, that he had fallen into trouble there, and was now being shipped to Australia. [5]
- I said it was a relief to me to see two real men, but I had no reason to complain of solitude thereafter till daybreak. [4]
- To Eglington it was a relief that there was one human being--he thought there was only one--who read him through and through; and that knowledge was in itself as powerful an influence as was the secret between David and Hylda. [11]
- Anything, she said, was a relief from the piano; and then, between the guitar and the banjo, one must really choose the banjo, unless one wanted to devote one's whole natural life to the violin. [8]
- The room was warm and close, it reeked with the smell of stale food, but at least she found relief from that other odour. [9]
- In this extraordinary war, extraordinary developments have manifested themselves, such as have not been seen in former wars; and among these manifestations nothing has been more remarkable than these fairs for the relief of suffering soldiers and their families. [7]
- Yet an insistent voice urged her on, whispering that to remain at home, inactive, was to go mad; salvation and relief lay in plunging into the struggle, in contributing her share toward retribution and victory. [9]
- It is a very relief to steal a walk of a hundred yards without a guide along to talk unceasingly about every stone you step upon and drag you back ages and ages to the day when it achieved celebrity. [5]
- He had not uttered one warm or human word concerning Claridge Pasha, and it was felt and said, that no pledge had been given to insure the relief of the man who had caught the imagination of England. [11]
- She could not utter a word, for she felt that whatever she might say, it would not be the right thing; and it was a real relief to her to busy herself over the removal of the body, in which she could be helpful. [10]
- Of course the usual American relief of irritability and impatience suggested itself. [4]
- She drew herself up slightly as with an air of relief and resolve. [11]
- So I sat up all night, and followed the relief party in the morning, and you nearly disfigured me for life when you threw that bottle into the woods. [9]
- She was in unusually good spirits, her heart beat higher than it had done for years; she felt uplifted by the sense of relief from a burthensome duty, and of freedom to act independently on the dictates of her own intelligence. [10]
- It was not until 1590 that Raleigh was able to despatch vessels to the relief of the Hatorask colony, and then it was too late. [4]
- Now we drove under dark pines and hemlocks, and then into a lighter relief of birches and wild cherries, or a copse of young beeches. [9]
- And it is true that the satisfaction of having a situation, of doing something, the relief to the previous daily anxiety and almost despair, raised his spirits. [4]
- But he smiled too, for he realized that his being where he was alone meant that the army had moved on over that last hill; and that there would soon be the Relief for which England prayed. [11]
- His first messengers to us were killed, and that is why the news of the relief came so late. [11]
- Do come back to the world, Mr. Armour; you would be a relief, a new sensation. [11]
- They often appeal to the stranger to know if the great world will not some day come to their relief and save them. [5]
- They were going to the relief of besieged men, with a message from Nahoum Pasha to Claridge Pasha, and with succour. [11]
- We have little to record of this visit, which was suggested as a relief and recreation while his home was being refitted for him. [6]
- The magician began to pull his wits together, and when he presently smiled an easy, nonchalant smile, it spread a mighty relief around; for it indicated that his mood was not destructive. [5]
- At that moment, to my relief, I discerned the Celebrity and Mr. Cooke in the hallway. [9]
- As a relief to monotony it may be now and then allowed,--may even have an agreeable effect in breaking the monotony of too formal verse. [6]
- It's a relief to know that! [4]
- One great relief to her mind at this time was derived from the conviction that her father took a positive pleasure in all the thoughts about and preparations for her wedding. [14]
- Vague relief came to her in the sense of being enclosed between dark stone walls, deep hidden from the glare of sun, from the glistening sage. [13]
- It never failed to give at least temporary relief, but nothing enabled me to sleep in my state-room, though I had it all to myself, the upper berth being removed. [6]
- I was eager to get to business and find relief, but she was distressingly deliberate. [5]
- She therefore explained to Caracalla, in a low whisper directly he began to speak again, that her desire to give him relief would be vain if he did not keep his eyes and lips closed. [10]
- Our arrival seemed to be a relief to Henderson. [4]
- I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress, perfect relief is not possible, except with time. [7]
- Although at another time Mr Swiveller might have looked upon this as a doubtful compliment, he felt it, under the then-existing circumstances, a great relief to be assured that he was not wrongfully suspected. [12]
- Jake Wheeler moped through the days in Rias Richardson's store, too sore at heart to speak to any man, and could have wept if tears had been a relief to him. [9]
- These thoughts passed through Gorgias's mind as the deep azure hue of sea and sky blended with the sunlight to bring into the strongest relief all that the skill and brains of man, aided by exhaustless resources, had here created. [10]
- By law, one thousand dollars of this was exempt from income tax--the only relief I could see, and it was only a drop in the ocean. [5]
- And his overwhelming thought was of relief that he had somehow escaped. [9]
- Also, I'd let things go for a year, and what jury would give me relief! [11]
- When, at length, they went away, and locked the dreadful room behind them, and came out into the street, where people were passing, they, for the first time, realized, in the relief they felt, what a nervous strain they had been under. [5]
- I tell you these things, because it is absolutely necessary to me to have some relief. [14]
- As a result, these revenues were already quadrupled, and yet the burden was so much more equably distributed than before, that all the kingdom felt a sense of relief, and the praises of my administration were hearty and general. [5]
- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject. [12]
- If relief fails there, he must take the required rest, whether the business can stand it or not. [5]
- There shot into them a look of horror and relief in one, if such a thing might be. [11]
- Her repugnance of the woman was as nothing beside her splendid feeling of relief. [11]
- Wearied out by the vividness of her sorrowful recollections, she sought relief in long walks on the moors. [14]
- She rose from the veille with a sense of relief. [11]
- Sometimes he realized the uselessness of such protest, sometimes the mere writing of them had furnished the necessary relief, and he put, the letter away, or into the wastebasket, and wrote something more temperate, or nothing at all. [5]
- The President of the United States used to send for him and consult him, because he wanted no office; he knew men, and it was a relief to talk with a liberal rich man of so much bonhomie who wanted nothing. [4]
- The cause of the unaccountable delay of Sir George and the relief parties among the heights where the disaster had happened was a thick fog--or, partly that and partly the slow and difficult work of conveying the dead body down the perilous steeps. [5]
- At sight of the tall clergyman, an expression of relief came into his face. [9]
- As soon as the 'Susie' reached Troy, she was turned over to General York, and placed at his disposition to carry out the work of relief more rapidly. [5]
- During the delay the spectators exhibited unexampled patience, finding amusement and relief in the slightest movements of the court, the prisoner and the lawyers. [5]
- His face expressed the relief of relaxed strain felt by a man who means to rest after a ceremony. [2]
- The predictions of the prefect Titianus were fulfilled, for the Emperor's faults increased with years and the meaner side of his mind and nature came into sharper relief. [10]
- So pleasantly did the place affect Dyck's spirits that, as he sat down in the room which had often housed worse men than himself, he gave a sigh of relief. [11]
- The passengers of the packet were assessed 2,500 pounds to be allowed their liberty, and Stobo had to pay 125 pounds towards the relief fund. [11]
- The walls of the men's apartment were painted of a reddish-brown color, against which the outlines of some white marble carvings, the gift of a Chian sculptor, stood out in sharp relief. [10]
- Their anxiety on the matter was beginning to be so serious, that Bartja's unexpected appearance was a great relief. [10]
- He said that the man outside the walls could sometimes tell the besieged the way relief would come. [11]
- She paused on the landing, her sense of relief overborne by a greater sense of defeat. [9]
- He could sweep the horizon in a wide general outlook, and manage his perspective and his lights and shadows so as to place and accent his special subject with its due relief and just relations. [6]
- But suddenly, as the gentleman turned, she caught sight of him, and from her lips escaped a cry of relief. [9]
- When, in July, the financial situation became desperate, the Esmeralda miner was moved to turn to literature for relief. [5]
- And now, in the Essay we have just been looking at, I find that "his books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level. [6]
- As he reached the circle it was a slight relief to learn that Pepper was the attraction. [9]
- Every portion of the building blazed with gold and vivid coloring; the painter's hand had added life to the marble groups in high relief that filled the pediments and the smaller figures in the long row of metopes. [10]
- The arch of the broad chest stood forth in fine relief, and with it the breast-plate and points of his armor. [10]
- The members of the body-guard who were on duty told her that nothing unusual had occurred, and with a sigh of relief she passed into the sitting-room. [10]
- He needed advice, the advice of those who had more knowledge than he had of the merits of relief cases. [4]
- I now add that, with the hearty concurrence of Congress, I would yet be pleased to construct a road, both for the relief of these people and for its continuing military importance. [7]
- Did they suppose that the Boers would attack them even for issuing a Manifesto demanding relief under the existing government? [5]
- It was clear that the arrival of Mrs. Crozier had brought him no relief, for Crozier's face was not that of a man who had found and opened a casket of good fortune. [11]
- What a relief that should have come among the first. [9]
- Why was it that she had felt a little relief when her last Brandon visit was at an end, a certain freedom in Lenox and a greater freedom in Newport? [4]
- It irked him that he should be fighting with a farmer, as he termed the Seigneur of the Jersey Isle; but there was in the event, too, a sense of relief, for he had a will for murder. [11]
- It sickened him that he could think of that with a sense of relief, almost of hope. [11]
- Both left the tent as he spoke, and Hermon uttered a sigh of relief as he looked after them. [10]
- The relief of temporary suffering has taken the place of the care of souls. [4]
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