Example sentences for: reserves

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

  • Flanked with patches of forest leading up into the foothills of the Himalayas, the flat plain stretches right across to the Bay of Bengal 1,600 km (1,000 miles) away, but some areas are kept as nature reserves for the country’s wildlife, notably its tigers, leopards, and elephants.

  • Grant to beef up legal aid reserves

  • Libération, the left-leaning Paris daily, said that the Islamic terrorists 1) were much more numerous and resilient than the Algerian government would admit and 2) had "inexhaustible reserves bred by hatred, poverty, and the desire for vengeance."

  • According to Greider, in 1983 the five major central banks of the world held $139 billion in foreign exchange reserves, compared with $39 billion a day that was traded, on average, in foreign-exchange markets.

  • As a commonwealth , Puerto Rico is subject to all federal laws, and the U.S. Congress reserves the right to repeal any locally enacted legislation.


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