Example sentences for: revives

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

  • One linguistic quibble: the piece revives the old-fashioned term "white slave trade," which brings with it an unnecessary implication that slavery is a special insult to white women.

  • Instead, it uses novices (Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting ) or revives washouts (John Travolta, Pulp Fiction ). In their distribution deals, the Weinsteins find genuine bargains.

  • After panning Demi Moore's performances in The Scarlet Letter and Striptease as stolid and humorless, most critics say that this movie revives her career.

  • An autobiographical book of verse by the British poet laureate and former husband of iconic poet Sylvia Plath revives the cultish fascination with her suicide in 1963 at age 30.

  • In that article I argued that The Phantom Menace revives long-standing racial stereotypes about Asians, Jews, and blacks.


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