respite

A fourth-down stop at the goal line gave San José State a brief respite from USC piling on points.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Darvill said the ship became "really hot" with "no respite".

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The Buckhorn Restaurant at Cuyama Buckhorn, a midcentury roadside hotel refurbished in 2018, serves as the perfect respite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Stop-and-start peace negotiations in the Middle East brought a respite for gasoline prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

In general, I hoped that time with me and the girls would always be a respite, even though work was forever close by.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Even for malaria the respites may be transient.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 2023

Bad Bunny also recently said that he takes much-needed respites from social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

In a movie that starts at fever pitch and rarely relents, these grisly interludes, captured by Larry Smith’s glowering camera, offer strangely haunting respites from the plot’s general chaos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

During his incarceration in Japan, the only respites Bobby had from boredom and emotional turmoil were the visits from his lawyers and Miyoko, and his use of the telephone.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

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

He has not been forgiven; he has only been respited.

From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

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

From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys

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

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

"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

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