Example sentences for: relieved

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

  • that Amelia wept confidentially on the housekeeper's shoulder “and relieved herself a good deal.”

  • He seems relieved to be able to report that linguists had spent considerable time in studying the runestones without significant results or that they were quick to call something fraudulent.

  • The operator said that methylene chloride had caused skin and eye irritation (dibasic esters did not) and he was relieved to not have to worry as much about the consequences of accidental splashes.

  • Another obvious bonus, although impossible to over-emphasize, is the absence of cars, the simple joy of wandering around a town relieved of traffic and pollution, of standing on a little humpback pedestrian bridge far from the Grand Canal and hearing only the water lapping against the moss-covered walls, or the occasional swish of a sleek gondola that appears out of nowhere.

  • 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.


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