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Example sentences for "restoring"

Lexicographically close words:
restored; restorer; restorers; restores; restoreth; restos; restrain; restraine; restrained; restrainer
  1. No time was lost in restoring the authority of Portugal throughout the colony.

  2. It is thus quite likely that a thief, under these circumstances, should be frightened into restoring stolen property.

  3. He was determined that she should have the pleasure of restoring the guinea-hen.

  4. Carlo was particularly obliged to him, he said, for restoring this rule to him, as it was a present from the master of a vessel, who employed his father to do carpenter's work for him.

  5. The project of restoring and refurnishing the mansion was begun by the War Department in 1928.

  6. However, the work of restoring the mansion to its original condition is a continuing process, as structural changes based on historical research are made and more of the original furnishings are identified and acquired.

  7. As president of Washington College (afterwards Washington and Lee University), he devoted himself to restoring the South culturally, economically, and politically.

  8. When the Chancellor pronounced his decree in March last, he cited certain precedents to justify him in restoring this volume to Massachusetts.

  9. A] I consider it a great privilege to have been associated with an act of courtesy, which was also an act of justice, in restoring to its proper place a document which is so important in the records of your illustrious Commonwealth.

  10. Early in 1534 Philip of Hesse set in earnest about his scheme, so momentous for Protestantism, of forcibly expelling King Ferdinand from Würtemberg, and restoring it to the exiled Duke Ulrich.

  11. The travellers in the restoring line, who used to flock to Gaeta and Portici, carried off a great number of them in their bags; what they left are in the casket of the young Countess Ferretti.

  12. That your memorialist and her family are poor and wholly unable to pay or sustain any portion of the expenses of restoring the said Solomon to his freedom.

  13. Then you do not think of restoring him to his people?

  14. So our time was much occupied in restoring things to order.

  15. When asked what he was doing when he was arrested, Pierre replied in a rather tragic manner that he was restoring to its parents a child he had saved from the flames.

  16. The third room contains the famous Egina marbles, which I had seen at Rome when Thorwaldson was engaged in restoring them.

  17. An able financier, with the support of a popular chamber and the assent of the sovereign, could have had no difficulty in restoring the public credit.

  18. Pedant as he was, he was yet enough of a politician to see the practical urgency of restoring material order, whatever spiritual belief or disbelief might accompany it.

  19. The few cool and collected men in the ship were powerless at first, but gradually they succeeded in restoring some degree of order.

  20. Meanwhile, I count myself peculiarly fortunate in being the means of restoring this case to its rightful owner.

  21. Hence we are not surprised to find that Nicephorus was an Iconoclast, and refused to follow in the steps of Irene in the direction of restoring image-worship.

  22. The three able emperors who reigned at Nicaea, though they had preserved their independence against Turk and Frank, had utterly failed in restoring administrative efficiency in their provinces.

  23. Sharpe restoring the chancel, and the parishioners and other friends the tower.

  24. He also rewrote the inscriptions on all the royal tombs, probably in most cases restoring the ancient words.

  25. When the body is cold, friction, and the other means used for restoring the animal heat in drowned persons, should be resorted to.

  26. In addition to our remarks elsewhere, we may here observe, that all the various systems proposed for strengthening or restoring the hair depend for their efficacy upon simple excitation or stimulation of the skin.

  27. Progressive hair-wash for restoring the natural colour of the hair and beard.

  28. Under this head are included all preparations which are used for beautifying, preserving, or restoring the hair.

  29. An embrocation for restoring the suspended functions of the skin by stimulating the flow of vital electricity and the functions of the nerves.

  30. In fresh milk these substances may be readily detected by the property it possesses of restoring the colour of reddened litmus paper.

  31. External applications employed for the purpose of preserving or restoring personal beauty.

  32. After the wound has thoroughly healed blisters are recommended for restoring the hair.

  33. We entreat you to exert every nerve to avenge that injury, not only by restoring affairs to their former situation, but by driving the Swedes from every side of the river.

  34. The Mohawks interposed their friendly mediation in behalf of peace, and succeeded in recovering and restoring to the Dutch several captives.

  35. The original design had been repainted in dazzling colors by the artist charged with restoring the church.

  36. Mademoiselle de Corandeuil was entirely occupied in restoring her poodle to health.

  37. Agriculture, vigorously pursued, is equal to the Production of all these Benefits; and the present Age will enjoy the Glory of restoring it, by favouring and encouraging Cultivaters, and by forming Societies for the Promotion of Agriculture.

  38. These Remedies by stilling the Cough, and restoring Perspiration, frequently cure the Cold in the Space of one Night.


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