Burgoyne, in the hope of being relieved by Sir Henry Clinton; and Gates, in the confidence of growing stronger every day.
General Washington was immoveable in his determination to repel it; and thus all hope of being relieved in the ordinary mode appeared to be taken from those whom the fortune of war had placed in the power of the enemy.
The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
Defn: The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
During the early part of the siege, regiments in the 16th and 30th Brigades, on being relieved in the front line, returned to a bivouac in Kut and did some hours' digging on the way, the operation being carried out at night.
All were still confident of being relieved, and when it became known that General Gorringe had taken over command down stream we felt sure something decisive would happen and that he would get through, if anyone could.
After this, being relieved by our infantry, we returned to the rear with orders to cook up rations.
On the morning of the 27th, being relieved by the infantry, we were ordered over to Shelbyville pike, and camped the following night on Fountain Creek.
We left the Aisne in the small hours of the morning of the sixteenth of October, being relieved by a French Division, after we had been in the trenches the whole of the time since the battle of the fourteenth of September.
These we held the next day, being relieved again at night by a French Division, with the exception of about thirty of us, who were unfortunately left behind.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being relieved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
