Example sentences for: redeem

How can you use “redeem” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "She's a time-traveling Manhattan Yankee in Plautus's forum, using her distinctive street smarts to find her way, both as a character and as a performer" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Goldberg's self-mocking approach is said to redeem the production from an otherwise overwrought book.

  • The movement to redeem ourselves from the evil of slavery should have prompted a commitment to a value even more basic than equality: the infinite human value of all human beings.

  • The New York Times ' Janet Maslin, on the other hand, says the "audaciously beautiful imagery, captivating symmetries and brilliantly facile tricks" redeem the film.

  • A Red Sox victory over the Yankees in the playoffs and over the Mets in the World Series, he says, would redeem the fallen team's century of ill treatment by the sinners of New York and "restore the earth's moral balance just before our great calendrical transition.

  • As for the charges against FDR, they too are specious--the residue of 1940s conspiracy theories by the ultra-rightists Buchanan seeks to redeem.


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