respite

"I do not think he deserves a respite," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

There’s little respite to be found in the Chargers’ upcoming games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Before landing in Thailand for a brief respite early this month, the USS Abraham Lincoln had spent a record 9½ months at sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

The young men came ashore there for fresh water and a respite from the sea, and at first were well received, with wonder and commotion.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 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

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

She knew she was heading somewhere for another of her brief respites from Orlando’s paperness.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Yet as he knelt with the axe lifted above him, he was respited and banished to Siberia; and on his way thither a courier overtook him, bearing a pardon for him and his banished brothers.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

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

From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys

May was respited, and was sentenced to transportation for life.

From The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 To Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act by James Blake Bailey

Then Dorothy Thornton felt that the sand was running low in the hour glass of respited happiness and that the day when her husband must face his issue was terribly near.

From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey

Powell respited the prisoner that the pleasure of the Lieutenant Governor might be known.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 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

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

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