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Example sentences for "reassert"

Lexicographically close words:
reasonless; reasons; reassemble; reassembled; reassembling; reasserted; reasserting; reassertion; reasserts; reassigned
  1. That's your old self trying to reassert itself.

  2. It is quite conceivable, indeed, that once Home Rule is granted Irishmen will be Imperialists at Westminster without becoming Nationalists at Dublin--the natural conservatism of the Irish character may reassert itself.

  3. It is our duty to assert and reassert this right, to agitate, discuss, and petition, until our political equality be fully recognized.

  4. In 1822, Jehangir resolved to reassert his claims over Kashgar, and, while his eldest brother continued to reside in retirement at Bokhara, he joined the Kara Kirghiz.

  5. Then his troubled brain began to reassert itself.

  6. It is a claim, at least, which has silently endured through some hundreds of generations of men, to reassert itself quietly, times and again, after many hundreds of accesses of human madness.

  7. In the drawing-room natural affinities reassert themselves: intimates gather into little groups.

  8. Once and again Margaret sadly fancies that she sees faint signs of the old lifelong habit of telling her everything trying to reassert its sway; but in a moment it is checked.

  9. Then the fixed idea began stealthily, yet surely, to reassert its dominion; for there was a perceptible flavour of discouragement in the young man's speech.

  10. Sea-blues, sea-greens, sad by contrast, began to reassert their presence on walls and carpet and hangings.

  11. While, as the last roll of departing wheels died out along the avenues, the voices of the woodland began to reassert themselves.

  12. Nothing is easier than voluntarily to correct this attitude, but the clonic movements at once reassert themselves, although they may momentarily be kept in abeyance by placing the hand on the chin.

  13. As a general rule, excitement invites or increases movement, whereas sleep frustrates it, and after a good night's rest several minutes or even an hour or two may elapse ere the convulsions reassert themselves.

  14. Sleep suspended their activity, but at any interruption of it they scarcely ever failed to reassert themselves.

  15. These sustained forms are enshrined in memory and worshipped in moral philosophy, which often assigns to them a power to create and to reassert themselves which their precarious status is very far from justifying.

  16. The piety carefully fostered for half a life-time gave way before the first assaults of temptation, and never even attempted to reassert itself.

  17. In this war we shall either maintain and reassert our command of the sea, or we shall lose it: share it with Germany we shall not, because we cannot.

  18. The wonder is that the old nationalities did not reassert themselves; but they did not, to any extent worth mentioning; and perhaps this is the best proof of Han Kaotsu's real strength.

  19. But the purely musical interest does not reassert its sway until the reconciliation has taken place, and a feeling of peace and happiness is diffused around.

  20. After a brilliant introductory phrase, a plaintive melody makes its unexpected appearance, dying away in a sort of sigh, but only to reassert itself with greater fervour.

  21. It rose on the night air with some pretence of regularity, dying away again in the roar of the wind to reassert itself distantly in the deep, brief hushes of the storm.

  22. England, and once more a mighty army entered France to reassert the claims of the English kings to the French crown.

  23. In February of the next year the regency made an effort to reassert its authority.

  24. I knew that your better, sweeter self would soon reassert its sway!

  25. Slowly and painfully, recollection was attempting to reassert itself, the hurt brain was mending, as the cause of its recent failure to function was being slowly absorbed or removed by the healing processes of perfect circulation.

  26. The forgotten name had reawakened the returning memory that had been struggling to reassert itself.

  27. The Sultan of Turkey, who had hitherto been undecided as to his policy, now felt that he might safely take up arms against the French and reassert his sovereignty in Egypt.

  28. The Christian populations of Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Wallachia would soon reassert their independence, and the Greek Empire might be expected to recover some of its lost provinces.

  29. For a time, indeed, she was able to reassert even this; for the exhibition of all secular plays was in 1598 prohibited by the dying Philip II.

  30. After, however, the troubles of the French domination and the war had come to an end, the precepts and examples of the new school failed to reassert themselves.

  31. Then it was that Sobeyah determined to reassert her power, cause the overthrow of this ambitious favorite, and rule henceforth in her own name.

  32. I wished to reassert my sway and punish his former cruelty.

  33. He taught the timorous legislative authorities of Paris how to reassert their dominion over "King Mob," who had ruled them and the country for four hideous years.

  34. At first Keen Lung sent numerous but detached expeditions to reassert his power; but these were attacked in detail, and overwhelmed by Ling.

  35. Now, if the flexor tendons are cut and the toe straightened the atrophic extensor muscles will not hold it in that position, and when the flexors grow together the old condition will reassert itself.

  36. Persistence and frequent reminders are needed, or else the beginnings of the habit are soon dissipated and old bolting habits reassert themselves.

  37. This must be someone on whom they can absolutely depend, otherwise the old solicitude will reassert itself.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reassert" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    fill; iterate; pad; practice; recapitulate; recite; recount; rehearse; reissue; reiterate; renew; reprint; restate; resume; retail; retell; review; summarize