RESTORATION in a Sentence

Learn RESTORATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
239 example sentences for RESTORATION, such as:
1. Major restoration work will begin in May.
2. We demand an immediate restoration of our right to vote.
3. Volunteers are restoring the building under expert guidance.
4. The house fell into disrepair until a restoration fund was set up.
5. They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, every thing, to him.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RESTORATION
restoration
 n.  getting something back again
 n.  the state of being restored to its former good condition
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  s restoration, a visit was made by the inspector-general of prisons.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
2  When the emperor returned, he wrote, implored, threatened, and so energetically, that on the second restoration he was persecuted as a Bonapartist.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
3  This petition to Napoleon, kept back by Villefort, had become, under the second restoration, a terrible weapon against him in the hands of the king's attorney.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
4  Yes: for her restoration I longed, far more than for that of my lost sight.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, every thing, to him.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
6  Their manner of living, even when the restoration of peace dismissed them to a home, was unsettled in the extreme.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61
7  Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Then,' said Traddles, 'you must prepare to disgorge all that your rapacity has become possessed of, and to make restoration to the last farthing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
9  The restoration of the independence of his race was the idol of his heart, to which he had willingly sacrificed domestic happiness and the interests of his own son.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer were, however, in London, on their way to that long voyage which had been recommended for the restoration of his shattered nerves.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
11  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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
12  Besides this, as every great action bears its recompense with it, the brave exploit of d'Artagnan resulted in the restoration of the tranquility he had lost.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
13  At this Salius fills with loud clamour the whole concourse of the vast theatre, and the lords who looked on in front, demanding restoration of his defrauded prize.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
14  We may, perhaps, succeed in restoring her to them, if she is not obstinate: but I trace lines of force in her face which make me sceptical of her tractability.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Anxiety on Jane's behalf was another prevailing concern; and Mr. Darcy's explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion, heightened the sense of what Jane had lost.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  We demand an immediate restoration of our right to vote.
2  Major restoration work will begin in May.
3  A large majority of the population is demanding the restoration of the former government.
4  The house fell into disrepair until a restoration fund was set up.
5  Several famous alumni have agreed to help raise money for the school's restoration fund.
6  The first task following the disaster was the restoration of clean water supplies.
7  Since President has now announced that Emergency, the only demand that the lawyers can now agitate is the restoration of the old Supreme Court.
8  Here at the WACA we've witnessed the restoration of cricket's status quo.
9  They offer commercial and residential masonry and tile contracting, renovations, repairs and restoration.
10  A ruined Mayan city of northern Guatemala. It was the largest of the Mayan cities and may also be the oldest. Excavation and restoration of the ruins began in1956.
11  This talented ecclesiastic is also responsible for restoration of the Church in Tlalpan, on the outskirts of the Federal District.
12  It was also about restoring faith in a political system that limits and divides power between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary.
13  The company says its number one priority is restoring profits, not gaining market share at any price.
14  The new king began his reign by restoring order that the lawless interregnum had destroyed.
15  Volunteers are restoring the building under expert guidance.