Example sentences for: reserves

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

  • Survivors interviewed by the paper blamed the government for not conducting adequate building inspections, failing to create food reserves, and failing to equip them for emergencies.

  • As a result, most couples were anxious to add to their reserves by baby-sitting, reluctant to run them down by going out.

  • The country’s limited foreign-exchange reserves were squandered on window-dressing projects, grand monuments, and stadiums to host the Asian Games of 1962, seen as part of a plan to bring Indonesia into the world spotlight.

  • Graham constantly discovers new reserves of emptiness.

  • Given that there is no genuine infrastructure need for which China could not easily find private sourcing--of which Hong Kong accounts for the lion's share--the suggestion by a Cabinet member to raid the reserves is a virtual invitation for scam and graft.


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