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Example sentences for: respite

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Take a respite from February's portentous programs with the irreverent humor of George Carlin's latest HBO live concert, You Are All Diseased (Saturday, 9:30 P.M).
Mediocre food at inflated prices is (I imagine) a small price to pay for the respite these restaurants provide for the harried parent, and guidebook writers feel duty-bound to include them.
Baseball's 1998 comeback was a mere respite from its overall decline, argues the magazine.
Unfortunately, when the henequen bubble burst in the 1930s with the advent of synthetic fibers, the peninsula fell into an economic decline from which there seemed to be little hope of respite.
It said, "[t]here will be no respite allowed for the next Cabinet."