respite

This week could bring some respite to Treasurys, according to Williams, given the lack of issuance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

For the devoted Kenyan chai lover, that may offer some respite.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Eumaios’ narrowed eyes made out an empty bench beside the one the carver used—that servant who had no respite, carving for the suitors.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

There were brief respites, but things seldom got easier: “The wind whipped up at noon and sleet came smacking down,” Mr. Tesson recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

It was a break from the everyday grind, and such respites feel few and far between these days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Even for malaria the respites may be transient.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 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

The only respites were when Mark, the utility boy, came in.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

But at the period of our story men were often respited for short or long periods, yet suffered at last.

From International Short Stories English by Various

On the intercession of 'some divines of the church of Winchester' execution was respited till 2nd of September; and her sentence was afterwards commuted to beheading.

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Sir Harry Lushington Stephen

So, again I was respited; but I knew it to be only a respite, for the bushes were few, and I could find no sign of others or of t'samma.

From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Cornell

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

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

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

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

"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

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