respite

Chevron Chief Executive Mike Wirth cautioned that global supplies are running low, with no respite in sight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

These breaks are a welcome respite from long stretches of sitting and screen-based learning, which is common in some classrooms despite questions about its efficacy.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

In Pattaya, the sailors from the Lincoln continue a long tradition of U.S. servicemen seeking respite at the city’s wide sandy beach, restaurants and bars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

And it’s been broiling along the coast, which typically offers a cooler respite from the heat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Reg asked as the news began to report on traffic conditions, a welcome respite.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Last decade he toured big European venues and festivals between respites in Berlin or California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Even for malaria the respites may be transient.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 2023

A smaller seaside resort flourished at Crescent Beach, just north of the White Rock beach resort town, with its own cluster of cottages, eateries and sandy respites.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

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

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

The parties being summoned to Oxford, the judges received letters of request from our lord the King, that this business should be respited.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Jocelin de Brakelond

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

Bradford, the fifth, was respited, in the hope that the example might tell upon him.

From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys

I concluded that the father had already fed the little brutes, and that I was to be respited for an hour or two, perhaps half a day.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke

He pleaded benefit of clergy, and was respited, and instead of his original sentence was burnt in the hand.

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle

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

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

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

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