Example sentences for: redeemed

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

  • Henry was one of the few garden writers to admit that misery is a major operating principle in the life of the gardener, which is one "of unexpected failures and sorrows, somewhat redeemed by unexpected and utterly accidental triumphs."

  • A slightly Lenovian question, perhaps--it's easy to picture him holding up the komedy kards, then rushing out to buy another kollectible kar--but it was redeemed by some deft responses.

  • Sportswriters were happy for 1) Florida State receiver Peter Warrick , the undisputed star of the game, who "redeemed" himself after last year's arrest and suspension for theft; 2) Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, who got his first undefeated season and second national championship in 40 years of coaching; and 3) the Virginia Tech players , who "put season-long criticism of their toughness to rest" with a valiant comeback attempt.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (1803–1882), commented about success (I have adapted his comments for all of us who gathered in Washington in mid-May 2005): “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded [as a whistleblower].”

  • Victorian fashion, for example, wholly redeemed, is often treated with great respect in movies such as The Portrait of a Lady . The high hair and big bustles have been assimilated to all the other harmless customs of antiquity; they've become the equivalent of Egyptian breastplates and Elizabethan padding.


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