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Example sentences for "reserved"

Lexicographically close words:
reserued; reseruing; reservation; reservations; reserve; reservedness; reserves; reserveth; reserving; reservist
  1. The band pavilion in the centre of the garden had been reserved for the Viceregal party, and was covered in carpet and scarlet cloth, with two chairs of state.

  2. The rugged paths of the upper town were levelled and widened; the public highway ceased to be reserved for pedestrians only.

  3. The tribe occupies land reserved by Government, under the regulations of the Indian Bureau of Ottawa.

  4. As soon as the French came within musket-shot they began to fire, but the British reserved their fire until the enemy were within twenty yards.

  5. Atkinson) reserved the smaller half, Spencer Grange, some forty acres, divided off by a high brick wall and fence, and terminating to the east in a river frontage of one acre.

  6. It was reserved for La Salle to furnish the proof.

  7. So he inquired with a reserved and indulgent suavity, "Are you particularly fond of that poem, my dear?

  8. Is this our reserved Thomas--Thomas the taciturn, whom we know and love so well?

  9. A full description of these, however, must be reserved for another chapter.

  10. The writer submits a theory by which he thinks these mysteries may be explained, in a measure, if not wholly, but this, with others, will be reserved for notice hereafter.

  11. All this is no more than might have occurred to a thoughtful historian long years ago; but there is yet something else which it has been reserved for our generation to perceive, or at least to declare, without fear or hesitation.

  12. A hundred and sixty reserved seats at a guinea, and--' Felix put up his hands to his ears.

  13. That's an honour reserved for you, Clarence Hervey," said another, tapping him upon the shoulder.

  14. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see, But sweet regards, and pleasing sanctity, Mild was his accent, and his action free.

  15. I was afraid," said Hervey, "that you might think her manners too reserved and cold: they are certainly become more so than they used to be.

  16. Christ reserved his denunciations for the complacency of virtuous people.

  17. Nicolo received the old gentleman and his lady with every mark of respect at the entrance to the theatre, and conducted them to the seats which had been reserved for them, immediately in front of the stage.

  18. There was a secret satisfaction in this--although he accepted it as a matter of course, it was a portion of all that fate and good fortune had reserved for him, a slight advance payment from the infinite fairy-tale of life.

  19. When the late Bank of the United States was incorporated and made the depository of the public moneys, a right was reserved to Congress to inspect at its pleasure, by a committee of that body, the books and the proceedings of the bank.

  20. It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exercise of the popular will, and our experience has shown that it is as beneficent in practice as it is just in theory.

  21. We did not sit long over our wine, and John Turner reserved his cigar until a later opportunity.

  22. His manner towards me had been reserved and unnatural, and I wished to get to the bottom of his feeling in respect to one whom he had always treated as a friend.

  23. Education was reserved commonly for members of the ruling class.

  24. But it was reserved for my third pair of tits to give me a genuine surprise.

  25. But withal, as I have said, if we really possess any reserved strength, it knows how to bring it out and make the most of it.

  26. The curious have their reward, no doubt, but her best gifts are reserved for suitors of a more sympathetic turn.

  27. Very unlike her elder sisters, Maria and Isabella, she was somewhat reserved in manner; she spoke little, but expressed her opinion with flashes of her eyes.

  28. Mix the reserved part of the egg yolk with a tablespoon of cold water.

  29. Now spread with the reserved whites of eggs, reserving half again, as you will have to roll out at least twice on a large baking-board.

  30. Mix and sift flour and salt; rub the reserved butter into it and make as stiff as possible with ice-water.

  31. The white reserved may be beaten to a stiff froth and then gradually stir in four tablespoons of powdered sugar and the juice of half a lemon.

  32. The meat should be put into a pan, especially reserved for this purpose, entirely covered with cold water, and left to soak for half an hour.

  33. Cut in small pieces, brush every piece with fat, and roll in the sugar and almonds which has been reserved for this purpose.

  34. Their bloom is reserved for autumn; then they burn with a kind of dark glow, different, doubtless, from the blush of garden blossoms.

  35. There is to be no parting for us--I can see that; but such extraordinary luck seems reserved for you and me alone up to now; and it is all our own doing.

  36. All of which sayings, to do him justice, he reserved for home consumption exclusively, and he would have been the first to laugh on hearing them in the mouth of any one else.

  37. The eager anticipation for days; the careful selection, beforehand, from such an embarras de richesses as was duly advertised; then the long waiting in the street, at the doors reserved for those whose portion is to be the gallery.

  38. Disgrace reserved for him this thirst, and Prussia this glass of water.

  39. Representative Miot was reserved for the tortures of the casemates of Africa.

  40. But he spiritedly joined in the general enthusiasm, and with a calm conscience, after having reserved the principle, he was not the last to gird on his sash.

  41. While severe in most of his strictures on Wordsworth, Southey reserved his special malice for The Ancient Mariner.

  42. Alexander Strahan, the publisher, selected Dean Alford as its editor in order to assure a more reserved tone than that of its popular predecessor.

  43. Five horses were shot under him, his clothes were riddled with bullets, but he was reserved for a sinister fate.

  44. Accordingly at the beginning of 1800 he was withdrawn from the Army of Italy and sent as lieutenant to Moreau, who was to operate in the valley of the Danube while Bonaparte reserved the theatre of Italy for himself.

  45. At this moment the reserved broadside of the Aspasia was discharged, and the two frigates heeled over opposite ways, from the violent concussion of the air in the confined space between them.

  46. Some stammered incoherent words, others had a reserved and convulsive cough.

  47. Many, ignoring that the first bridge was reserved for pedestrians and horsemen, the second for wagons, crowded with delirious impatience upon the second bridge.

  48. There was little of it in her; and the little there was, she reserved for her own sex.

  49. Beautifully copied out, and tied up with carnation-pink ribbons, he reserved it for their last few moments together.

  50. Perhaps his own had been more reserved than he realised.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reserved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviated; abridged; aloof; antisocial; aphoristic; backward; bashful; blank; brief; brusque; chill; chilly; clipped; close; cold; compact; compendious; compressed; concise; condensed; constrained; contracted; cool; crisp; curt; cut; demure; detached; dignified; discreet; distant; docked; elliptic; elliptical; emotionless; expressionless; forbidding; formal; frigid; frosty; glacial; gnomic; guarded; haughty; held; humble; icy; impassive; impersonal; inaccessible; inhibited; introverted; kept; laconic; limited; misanthropic; modest; modified; mute; noncommittal; offish; pithy; pointed; poised; preserved; private; pruned; qualified; quiet; remote; removed; repressed; reserved; restrained; retained; reticent; retiring; saturnine; saved; secretive; sententious; short; shortened; shrinking; shy; silent; sober; solemn; solitary; spare; speak; specific; speechless; stiff; subdued; succinct; summary; suppressed; taciturn; terse; tight; truncated; unapproachable; unbending; uncommunicative; uncongenial; undemonstrative; unsociable; unsocial; withdrawn; wordless