REPOSE in a Sentence
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115 example sentences for REPOSE, such as:
1. To repose smacked of luxury and respect.
2. Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose.
3. The monks had no longer an instant of repose.
4. The picture shows a nude reposing on a couch.
5. After some seconds of repose she set out again.
2. Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose.
3. The monks had no longer an instant of repose.
4. The picture shows a nude reposing on a couch.
5. After some seconds of repose she set out again.
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Meanings and Examples of REPOSE
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repose
n. relaxation; leisure; freedom from worry; peace of mind
Classic Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
1 Immediately after, my senses, overpowered, gave themselves up to sleep, which was yet more swooning than repose.
2 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
3 He was accustomed not to devote many hours to repose.
4 One of her teeth projected when her face was in repose.
5 After some seconds of repose she set out again.
6 To repose smacked of luxury and respect.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
7 It seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean Valjean's tranquillity.
8 Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
9 In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, to be small.
10 At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand guarantees.
11 Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men.
12 The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is to say, repose.
13 The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the alert; it is the accomplished fact which posts sentinels and holds itself on its guard.
14 The monks had no longer an instant of repose.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
Context Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
15 But by degrees she overcame the outbursts of her mad passion; and nervous tremblings which agitated her frame disappeared, and she remained folded within herself like a fatigued serpent in repose.
Example Sentence:
1 After working hard every day in the busy city, Mike finds his repose on weekends playing golf with friends.
2 The chief manager has always reposed complete faith in his secretary.
3 The picture shows a nude reposing on a couch.