How to Use reprieve in a Sentence

reprieve

1 of 2 verb
  • He was sentenced to death but then reprieved.
  • The library has been reprieved and will remain open for at least another year.
  • Among those reprieved were members of far-right extremist groups.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Hogan clearly has not done enough to reprieve for his ugly racist remarks in 2015.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • And then there's the caveat that the tariffs keep changing, with new additions and exemptions and reprieves.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The latest report was the first since student-loan repayment reprieves ended.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
  • Businesses and households rush to import goods during tariff reprieves and then lessen their purchasing when the levies are set back in place.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Has Ollie Palmer just earned himself the most unlikely of Wrexham reprieves?
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The act of hospitality is a practice of rest, reprieve, and community repair.
    — Essence, 20 May 2025
  • Last August, a parole board declared that Pham, 37, posed no threat to public safety and granted him reprieve.
    — NBC News, 29 Mar. 2021
  • But the formal protests against the Brandon Shores reprieve largely center on its potential sticker shock to consumers.
    — Jeremy Cox, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
  • After a rainy week, Bay Area residents can expect a brief — and chilly — reprieve over the weekend before rainfall sweeps through once again early next week.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Dec. 2021
  • After more than 24 years on death row and three reprieves or stays of execution, Glossip is now facing his ninth execution date.
    — Brynn Gingras, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • International leaders are now seeking reprieves from the president.
    — German Lopez, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Owning their homes and reaping the benefit of low mortgage payments afforded people like Holt stability and reprieve.
    — Eileen Markey, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The hooker ended up hurting himself as a result of his bone-juddering hit on Artemyev but Samoa was again reprieved as Matu'u was also only shown a yellow.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 24 Sep. 2019
  • For our part, this trip is about fulfilling the European-lifestyle fantasies we’ve long been beguiled by, but also giving ourselves rest and reprieve after the ongoing challenges of the past few years.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Prior to the recent closure, Yosemite’s longest shutdown — and reprieve for critters — was in 1997 when the park was off limits to the public for two months after winter flooding.
    — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2020
  • Reprieved from collapse, the Ottoman Empire’s government pursued radical reforms.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • Executive clemency may take several forms, including pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Tyner, luckily, was reprieved; such stories aren’t foreign to the longtime Philadelphia radio personality.
    — Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The Constitution gives the president the power to pardon and reprieve except in cases of impeachment, and some legal scholars say that wording proscribes Congress placing other limits.
    — Erik Wasson, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2020
  • This middling outlook stands in contrast to a year ago, when big snows led Reclamation to predict flows at 172% of average, which gave both Powell and Mead reprieves from disaster built up over two decades of drought.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024
  • Whereas mammoths preferred the cold, dry grasslands that spread as Ice Age glaciers expanded, Mammut preferred the warmer, wetter habitats of Pleistocene forests and thrived during the interglacial reprieves from the ice.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
  • After rocking financial markets at the start of this week, worries about a potentially punishing global trade war had eased a bit after Trump gave 30-day reprieves for tariffs on both Mexico and Canada.
    — Stan Choe The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 8 Feb. 2025
  • In goal, Nick Pope and Aaron Ramsdale were rotated and jettisoned and reprieved, meaning that at each end of the pitch, Newcastle had a dearth of continuity and reliability.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • After rocking financial markets around the world at the start of this week, worries about a potentially punishing global trade war have eased a bit after Trump gave 30-day reprieves for tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Trump has already shown willingness to reprieve celebrity defendants, pardoning Lil Wayne over his weapon conviction and commuting Kodak Black’s sentence for falsifying records just before leaving office in 2021.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024

reprieve

2 of 2 noun
  • This warm spell has given us a reprieve from the winter cold.
  • They wanted to close the library, but we managed to get a reprieve for it.
  • No reprieve is in sight, of course.
    — Nashville Tennessean, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This was the worst of it, when there was no hope of reprieve.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Took a reprieve, took 80 years.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • But the reprieve is likely to be short-lived.
    — Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There was some reprieve this week, though, for many in Ukraine.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
  • Of course, there is always a chance for a last-minute reprieve.
    — PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This means there hasn't been a reprieve in the long-term warming trend.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Some victims get a reprieve from the abuse when the spouse is at work, or out of the home.
    — Fox News, 8 Apr. 2020
  • What both teams hope for is a long enough reprieve to finish the season.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 21 Nov. 2020
  • But the reprieve may be short-lived for other parts of the country.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Yet Netanyahu is well aware that this reprieve will be short-lived.
    — Raja Shehadeh, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Her cancer is back after about a six-month reprieve.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The wildfire season's fast start has been met with a brief reprieve.
    — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 14 May 2018
  • And confusion reigns over how much longer the reprieve will last.
    — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • So this morning, here's a quick reprieve from the abstract.
    — Nick Suss, Nashville Tennessean, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Lindell has won at least one legal reprieve.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • But at least Louisville's season will start on time, thanks to the late reprieve.
    — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 24 Nov. 2020
  • One of those reprieves came only hours before.
    — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Toys still could get a last-minute reprieve if a deep-pocket investor or lender steps up.
    — Cincinnati.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Use the plantains as a palate reprieve or stack the fish on top (don’t forget the ají).
    — Isa Zapata, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The outcome ends, for now, the threat of a shutdown, but the reprieve may be short-lived.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The reprieve came when Milroe had time to do one or the other.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • With no sign of a reprieve in 2022, watch your back and stay safe out there.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Yet there has not been a reprieve for the citizens who remain there.
    — Guy Davies, ABC News, 13 July 2023
  • In some ways, the holiday will serve as a reprieve for the single dad.
    — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The moves seem to have bought Glencore a reprieve in the country.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • But this is just a short reprieve before the big heat arrives this weekend.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • The board chose to ask for a reprieve, according to a release from the board.
    — Chris Boyette, CNN, 18 Nov. 2019

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