revanche

Example Sentences

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In a public statement, Serebrennikov described how, even in the country’s gathering conservative revanche, it had seemed that some “free air” remained, if only “in fashionable cafes, at home, with friends”.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2020

En revanche, le texte complet demeure absolument inchangé.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2020

They actually predicted as early as 1999 that there was a possibility of totalitarian revanche.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2017

This time, however, the “White House defenders” were the forces for revanche, and the term’s association with freedom faded.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2016

En revanche, they make no great use of their hands, and it is not uncommon for them to use their feet to assist their hands.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage