Example sentences for: reserving

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

  • It is high time that brahman be so spelt when the caste is implied, reserving Brahman when `the Absolute' is meant.

  • Two months later, he assailed George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism," declaring, "Compassion means reserving the surplus until we save Social Security first ...

  • "It accuses the US of refusing to recognise the primacy of international law, reserving the right to use the death penalty against juveniles and of being the only country, apart from Somalia, to have failed to ratify the UN convention on the rights of the child," the paper said.

  • Clinton revealed two other proposals jointly supported by the congressional Dems in his State of the Union address, which was delivered after the scandal broke: reserving future budget surpluses until some fix has been found for Social Security, and raising the minimum wage.

  • I am myself conventionally "pro-choice," but I would think it a dubious procedure to make that the criterion of when it was illegitimate to invoke the Holocaust, reserving the mantle of legitimacy for causes--like humanitarian intervention, or the promotion of brotherhood and tolerance--of which I approve.


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