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Example sentences for "reassume"

Lexicographically close words:
reasserting; reassertion; reasserts; reassigned; reassignment; reassumed; reassurance; reassurances; reassure; reassured
  1. The young, as we have just seen, reacquire their longitudinal stripes, and the boars invariably reassume their tusks.

  2. When he was released from his post of guardian, it was only to reassume that of master of the novices, which be held for four successive years, and exercised partly in Naples, and partly in Piedimonte.

  3. I strove to transform myself into another man, and, like a playactor, to reassume the character, manners and emotions of a past period.

  4. Here friends persuaded him to reassume the cowl.

  5. At the request of his son and of the senate, he condescended to reassume the purple.

  6. He was solicited by that restless old man to reassume the reins of government, and the Imperial purple.

  7. Reassume then your existence as a nation.

  8. July 27 After a fortnight's, a dreadful fortnight's intermission, I reassume my pen.

  9. Song-thrush, Turdus simpliciter dictus: In February and on to August, reassume their song in autumn.

  10. In some of these cases only half the flower or fruit, or a smaller segment, or mere stripes, reassume their former character; and here we have reversion by segments.

  11. You should not enter, for, at the sight of a stranger, they would instantly reassume their several characters.

  12. Finally, the rod may again ascend and reassume its first horizontal position, having thus completed a revolution.

  13. The Play-going public of Hamburgh were rejoiced at this, for they looked forward to see their Stage reassume the distinguished rank to which it had formerly attained under Schroeder's direction.

  14. Arrived at Clausthal; our first care was to get rid of the unseemly growth of beard that had accrued to all during our journey, so as to reassume a somewhat more civilized appearance.

  15. And then his gloomy, cruel disposition would reassume its influence, and he thought of revenging the attack upon his life.

  16. Let all good citizens who earned honour as its chiefs, and showed themselves so brave before the enemy, reassume their authority, and the cruel situation of the moment will be terminated by peace and the return of public prosperity.

  17. Like the tamed bird which flies from its cage, and after wandering a short time, is glad to return to its home and reassume its perch, so did I consider it would be the case with the sultan.

  18. I thought it wise so to do, to prove to him that I was not displeased, and trusting that the Circassian might suffer when in company with others of equal charms, who from neglect might reassume their novelty.

  19. And that no suspicion might remain on the mind of his father, he affected to reassume his usual gaiety, and was to all appearance as volatile and dissipated as ever.

  20. But I shall be better able to reassume this conversation to-morrow--to-night I am fatigued; and it is time for us to separate.

  21. After a sort of apology to Delamere, he endeavoured to reassume his consequence.

  22. She goes back to reassume her cross: sadly, weariedly forecasting, as only such a nature can do, all its shame and pain; and even still only dimly assured that her true path lies here.

  23. If this does not happen, they retain their hooked shape for a considerable time, and then bending upwards reassume their original upturned position, which is preserved ever afterwards.

  24. In the cases given of certain South African plants belonging to great twining families, which in their native country never twine, but reassume this habit when cultivated in England, we have a case in point.

  25. His correspondence during this period gives ample evidence of his extreme reluctance to reassume public responsibilities.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reassume" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.