Example sentences for: relieved

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

  • One long street is lined with ugly concrete houses and sheds, relieved by Pura Ulun Danu, the new temple of black volcanic stone started in 1927 that is still being extended.

  • It's a convincingly icky portrait, so we're relieved when Self picks Simon up and sends him on a Swiftian journey.

  • The prognosticators almost sound relieved to finally touch and feel the signs of inflation they've been expecting for months.

  • "His most substantial role in years" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). Critics are relieved that the film uses politics only as a backdrop for a romance between Day-Lewis and a married woman (played by Emily Watson).

  • They report that the late Bette Davis relieved her frustrations during the shooting of the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington by romping in the proverbial hay with director Vincent Sherman.


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