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Example sentences for "reserve"

Lexicographically close words:
reserue; reserued; reseruing; reservation; reservations; reserved; reservedness; reserves; reserveth; reserving
  1. Beneath that reserve is a deeply emotional, a quite uncommon nature.

  2. In spite of this Jessie had the sensation that her whole character was being thoroughly studied, and this drove her by degrees from her reserve into a state of irritation entirely foreign to her disposition.

  3. But neither his serene and careless air, nor his prepossessing appearance, succeeded in thawing the cold reserve of the young lady.

  4. She is a quite peculiar mixture of maidenly reserve and genuine American self-consciousness.

  5. Reserve one cupful of the milk, and put the remainder on to boil.

  6. Reserve about fifteen cherries, with which to garnish the centre of the cake.

  7. On the evening of the fifth day, after supper, a reserve officer from headquarters appeared in barracks with a list, the substance of which he said could be disclosed to the public.

  8. A reserve captain had been given his walking papers.

  9. You know the Meter called me and that Reserve Lieutenant Sullivan into the orderly room and told us we were goin' to be in command of the two companies.

  10. The reason of this reserve was, that the Romans were unwilling to drive the city into the arms of the Epirot king.

  11. A Roman army remained as a reserve in the capital.

  12. The road to the reserve lay several miles over the plains, and commanded a view of rolling grass land, like a brown sea whose waves were petrified, with here and there a group of sickly wind-blown trees to break the resemblance.

  13. Such a performance had never been seen on the reserve before.

  14. They dwell upon a reserve of nearly five hundred square miles of plains land, watered by the beautiful Bow River, and almost within sight of the Rocky Mountains.

  15. The chief reason for separating Pansul from Parang was to reserve for the sultan direct control over Jolo and Maymbung.

  16. We hurried on and became a part of the reserve at the hot battle of Port Gibson, as we ourselves did no fighting.

  17. That night we marched ahead, and in the morning bivouacked in the woods as a reserve for troops fighting at the Black River bridge.

  18. Louis had always understood this; and she feared to give his dislike of Otteline such advantage, as to yield him opportunity to retract his engagement, should she reserve no great political object to hold him in check.

  19. He learnt from the Marquis, that as soon as he was taken from the Val del Uzeda, a reserve guard had forcibly seized Lorenzo; and borne away him also, to prison.

  20. All honour, therefore, to the General who, without hesitation, with just two Reserve Divisions, took the shock of the German legions and sacrificed himself and his troops rather than see the honour of France go down in the dust.

  21. During the assault the guns should be constantly playing on the reserve trenches of the enemy, the counter batteries (i.

  22. General d'Amade manoeuvred these two Reserve Divisions into a position which seriously threatened von Kluck's flank.

  23. That obliges me to have more reserve than a girl whose mother is with her.

  24. He obeyed, although not agreeing in her view of the reserve to be maintained between lovers; but, he made up his mind to return to the charge and triumph over her bashful scruples.

  25. Beds too, if they had to be mentioned, were approached with caution; and a decent reserve prevented them and husbands ever being spoken of in the same breath.

  26. Kate in reserve was just as potent as Kate in actuality, and there were points about Kate in reserve which might be missing from Kate in actuality.

  27. Really am I to understand," she asked, "that you propose to reserve the one spare-room for the exclusive use of your own family?

  28. Mrs. Fisher, after a pause, said with sub-acid reserve that she had been unacquainted with both Keats and Shakespeare.

  29. The reserve she maintained on this point has been always respected by me.

  30. With eleven minutes left to play, and a lead on the score, Badger had resolved on using up all the reserve strength, if need be.

  31. The sergeant, also, followed, after summoning a reserve policeman to the desk.

  32. But if these most grievous sins do not prevent one's salvation, how foolish it is to reserve those lighter sins!

  33. Yea, the godless despots leave the great sins to the plain priests, and reserve to themselves those sins only which are of less consequence, such as those ridiculous and fictitious things in the bull Coena domini[125].

  34. It is now an old custom, too, to give another man a benefice and to reserve a certain part out of the annual revenue[81].

  35. If it seems to you too long, say so, and we will reserve all these revelations for evenings at Rochecotte.

  36. Attempts have been made to identify reserve with duplicity; good faith will never authorise duplicity, but it may admit reserve, and reserve has the special faculty of increasing confidence.

  37. I was sure of it,' he returned with satisfaction; 'there is a gentleness and reserve and a sense of propriety in the members of that community which is quite unmistakable.

  38. I told him that no one had mentioned it to me, but that I thought a little more reserve in his language in a salon which he himself called the observatory of Europe would not be out of place.

  39. The girl, terrified at the prediction, ran, and in tears related to her father the fatal destiny said to be in reserve for her.

  40. I trusted a genuine appetite without the slightest reserve to a well-provided and well-conceived dinner, regretting only having lost the use of my substantial appetite.

  41. I would therefore recommend you to reserve your look of horror and indignation for more modern calamities.

  42. Those servants of the King who were about his person had opportunities of hearing a great deal, for he used to talk of everybody before them, and without reserve or measure.

  43. The women, it is true, gladly accepted her aid, but the men, who had grown up under the rod of the overseer, knew neither reserve nor consideration.

  44. To-day Kasana expressed her delight at the Hebrew's return with such entire frankness and absence of reserve that the quick-tempered man rushed out of the house lest he might be tempted into some thoughtless act or word.

  45. He had taken with him a bottle of Extra Reserve rum to drive, as he declared, the chill out of his bones.

  46. Yet in America it is the poor who make the law, and they usually reserve the greatest social advantages to themselves.

  47. Thus, in order not to deprive the state of the talents of an individual, those talents have been rendered almost useless, and to reserve an expedient for extraordinary perils the country has been exposed to daily dangers.

  48. At that same period North America was discovered, as if it had been kept in reserve by the Deity, and had just risen from beneath the waters of the deluge.

  49. A vaguely troubled look momentarily crossed the handsome face; with the Oriental's unerring instinct, he had detected the reserve of my greeting.

  50. We will reserve a compartment and you can resume your interrupted slumbers in a corner seat.

  51. The Duke of Wellington took command of a large body of troops held in reserve to defend the city; and the Bank of England, the Houses of Parliament, the British Museum, and other public buildings were made ready to withstand a siege.

  52. In his arrogance he declared that neither Parliament nor the people had any right to discuss matters of state, whether foreign or domestic, since he was resolved to reserve such questions for the royal intellect to deal with.

  53. There was a great deal more singing than there was election returns, as about all the news they were able to get was from the four precincts of St. Paul, New Canada, Rose and Reserve townships and West St. Paul.

  54. Buell having arrived, the battery was held in reserve and did not participate in the battle that day.

  55. So I thought of her aloneā€”I sought her society day after day, and from the very intensity of my feelings came a coldness and reserve that I did not feel.

  56. But in regard to that which was nominally the principal object of my visit, he maintained a reserve which I could not vanquish.

  57. We should reserve the term degeneration, real and actual, to that which presupposes an alteration at A, i.

  58. Respiratory reserve (which can be expelled by a forced expiration) = 1600 cu.

  59. We shall reserve the study of the other measurements, such as the total spread of the arms and the perimeter of the thorax, until we come to the analytical investigation of the separate parts of the body (limbs, thorax).


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reserve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstain; accumulation; adjourn; aggregation; allocate; allot; alternate; alternative; appoint; appropriate; archives; assign; auxiliary; backlog; backup; bank; bespeak; book; brevity; brief; cache; coldness; compunction; conserve; constraint; continue; counterfeit; curtness; defer; delay; deputy; designate; destine; detachment; detail; detain; discretion; distance; dummy; earmark; employ; engage; equivalent; extend; extra; fake; fate; forbear; forgo; fresh; fund; garner; gravity; held; hire; hoard; hold; husband; imitation; introversion; keep; library; lot; makeshift; mine; mint; mock; modesty; new; ordain; order; original; paradise; park; phony; pigeonhole; pinch; poise; postpone; preserve; pristine; prolong; protract; provisional; proxy; recess; recourse; recruit; refrain; repression; reservation; reserve; reserves; reservoir; resort; resource; restraint; restrict; retain; reticence; retirement; sanctuary; save; saved; saving; savings; schedule; secondary; shelve; solemnity; spare; stay; stock; stockpile; store; stored; substitute; supply; suppression; suspend; suspended; table; take; temporary; tentative; token; unbeaten; uncertainty; understudy; unemployed; unexercised; unspent; untouched; untrodden; unused; utility; vicarious; waive; waived; withdrawal; withhold


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    reserve corps; reserve fund