respite

England meekly offered Australia respite from the ongoing sandpaper scandal by being bowled out for 131 in a seven-wicket thrashing in the first one-day international in Perth.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

But if AI investors were hoping for respite, they may have picked the wrong week.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

At first, these carefree interludes seem to be a welcome respite from “Queen at Sea’s” choking anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Families in Kyiv turn to medicine to get some respite from the stress mounting each year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Funny thing, it also makes me take a little extra care when I dig one so it might be a place of respite for the next guy to come along.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

They were blessed respites from the morning breakfast rush and carpool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

There are some respites from the training, the running and marching, the room full of tear gas, the dead man’s float test, the hand-to-hand combat, the flower planting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

These six podcasts offer respites for your brain, delivering tales that are diverting enough to keep you focused, but uneventful enough that you can doze off.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2024

Even for malaria the respites may be transient.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 2023

During one of these respites, Diana drew Lyddie to the nearest window.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

He was afterwards taken prisoner at Preston, impeached before the House of Peers in 1716, and sentenced to be executed as a traitor, and his estate forfeited; but eventually he was respited and pardoned.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Mrs. Thomson

But convicts, who have been respited from a capital sentence, shall in no case be admitted into this class until, upon the representation of the commandant, their sentence shall have been mitigated by the governor.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West

Whereupon the House ordered that their appearance be recorded, and that they attend again to-morrow, in order to plead the pardon; and the recognizance of the Lord Nairn was respited till that day fortnight.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

An hour later the crowd returned grumbling; they were disappointed that the beautiful criminal had been respited.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai

He was prevailed on to petition the council, upon which he was respited to the 30th, and from that to May 9th, when he suffered according to his sentence.

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

The respiting of the burning of the hand till the king's pardon could be obtained was not to put him in a worse condition than he would have been in had he been actually burnt.

From State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social by Various

Then they made a last attempt in his favour, and voted for respiting the execution.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

"There is one strange fact about this," said the governor of the prison to Harkaway, "and that is, that one of the prisoners has taken the liberty of respiting himself."

From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Bracebridge Hemyng

Then they made a last attempt in his favor, and voted for respiting the execution.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

By this simple sentence a flood of light is thrown on the fact of respiting him alone amongst the four men admittedly concerned in the rescue.

From The Dock and the Scaffold by Unknown