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Example sentences for "redeem"

Lexicographically close words:
redditum; redditus; rede; redecorated; rededication; redeemable; redeeme; redeemed; redeemeth; redeeming
  1. She was going to Miss Vallence, to ask her to come with her at once, and so to redeem her promise.

  2. Yes: that was the only duty left to her in life--to find the boys and redeem her promise to her mother.

  3. However, it is strange, nevertheless, he did not turn the habit itself against the Scottish monarch, as a virtue which failed to redeem him and make him a good fellow.

  4. The Swallow wrote: “There is only one who can redeem us: the musician.

  5. He told Daniel he had gone on a man’s note, had been suddenly obliged to redeem the note, and not having so much ready money at his disposal, had accepted a loan from the rich aspirant for Dorothea’s hand.

  6. If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold.

  7. The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck.

  8. He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

  9. In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

  10. Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

  11. But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel.

  12. But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

  13. I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

  14. If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

  15. Their advancement in the arts which render life comfortable, and sometimes, too, embellish even vice, cannot in any measure redeem them into favourable estimation.

  16. The only safety is, look to your feet and look to your road, and restrain yourselves, 'and so redeem the time.

  17. There is the pledge, there is the prophecy, there is the pattern; and there is the power to redeem the pledge, to fulfil the prophecy, to make the pattern copyable and copied by every one of us.

  18. I desire to remind you of the promises so frequently made by your government, and trust that you will so far redeem them as to cause the lives and liberties of my chiefs and people to be respected.

  19. No honest man would dream of blaming Knappe because he sought to redeem his country's word.

  20. And even in Common-wealths, if I be forced to redeem my selfe from a Theefe by promising him mony, I am bound to pay it, till the Civill Law discharge me.

  21. In the second place, Jesus saw no higher purpose in the man’s aim and outlook to redeem his acquisitiveness.

  22. In that case they have died a vicarious death which helps to redeem the rest from a social evil, and anyone who utilizes their suffering for that end, shows his reverence for their death.

  23. As it is the intention of Government only to punish the ringleaders and commanders capitally, and to suffer the inferior Rebels to redeem their lives by entering into the East India Company's service.

  24. The number which she had brought was forty, being more than sufficient to redeem every survivor of our crew then on board the Jersey.

  25. I beg thee then amongst my kinsfolk here: Redeem an oath for them and me, and give Thy hand to noble Siegfried.

  26. One finds it hard to believe that ideas which, incarnate in life, would so redeem the world are false.

  27. Redeem from slavery the men and women who have yielded to degrading habits.

  28. Stir up within us a great and effectual repentance that we may redeem the time which we have lost, and in the hours that remain may do the work of many days.

  29. Offers to redeem the life of the prisoner had been made by the traders, in a full council of eighty chiefs and warriors, but they were rejected.

  30. She told him either to redeem his pledge, or consent to be proclaimed for a lying dog, whose promises were unworthy ever to be heard, and then left him.

  31. If thou be the Son of God, save thyself if thou canst; redeem the land of thy birth from our hands.

  32. The Alexiad of Anna Comnena, and the history of Byzantine affairs by Nicephorous Bryennius, hardly redeem their age.

  33. I said in my mind: 'There is nothing in me which can redeem me from despair over my poor life and wasted opportunities.

  34. But in the heartache he gave me, I resolved, God helping me, that my luxury shall henceforth be to minister to human misery, and to redeem much time and money spent on my own fancies, as I may.

  35. One effort he did make to redeem his fortunes.

  36. His determination to redeem all his pledges was evident, and nobody capable of forming an opinion could entertain any doubt of his sincerity.

  37. It was indeed most mortifying for the monk to be beaten by foes for whom he had recently expressed such contempt, and Eustace made great efforts to redeem the fortune of the day, and a terrible struggle ensued.

  38. It did not take long to arrange matters to his satisfaction, and he had now been in Mr. Henry's employ about two weeks, and he began to believe that he was in a fair way to redeem himself.

  39. We will redeem Bogdaniec from our pledge anyhow, because we must hold that which our forefathers held.

  40. He went to Litwa hoping to become rich from booty so as to return to Bogdaniec, redeem the land from his pledge, colonize it with slaves, rebuild the grodek and settle Zbyszko on it.

  41. I will tell you also about the two Fryzes, from whom we took their retinues and so much rich booty, that one could redeem Bogdaniec with half of it.

  42. This treasure was destined to redeem Bogdaniec from his pledge.

  43. They had money enough to redeem the land they possessed quite a fortune gathered from the booty, from the ransoms paid by the knights captured by them, and from Witold's presents.

  44. He is young; let him redeem the land and beget children, as God ordered man to do.

  45. He knew perfectly well that he could never raise a tithe of the forty thousand sesterces that Pratinas was to receive from Calatinus, and so redeem Artemisia.

  46. Farewell, lady," cried Agias, "may I redeem the debt of gratitude I owe you!

  47. All my estates are involved, so that it will require years to redeem them, in the ordinary way.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "redeem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abet; acknowledge; aid; amend; assist; atone; avail; balance; befriend; benefit; buy; cancel; change; clear; comfort; commute; compensate; convert; counterbalance; countervail; defray; deliver; discharge; doctor; ease; exchange; expiate; extract; extricate; favor; finance; free; fund; help; honor; improve; liberate; lift; liquidate; offset; outweigh; propitiate; protect; purify; rally; ransom; recapture; reclaim; recompense; recoup; recover; recuperate; redeem; redress; reform; regain; regenerate; rehabilitate; release; relieve; remedy; remodel; renew; renovate; repair; replevin; repossess; rescue; reshape; restore; resume; resuscitate; retake; retire; retrieve; revive; salvage; satisfy; save; settle; spare; square; substitute; succor; switch


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    redeem them; redeeming love