respite

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

This gives the chancellor a few months of respite on the electoral front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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 medieval Europe, leprosy was seen as a kind of transfigurative suffering: Those with the condition were believed to be so wretched in this life that they were virtually guaranteed respite in the hereafter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

To gain a brief respite, Cluny pushed Killconey into Matthias.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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

Their doom will not be lightened, neither will they be reprieved; S: Abiding in it; their chastisement shall not be lightened nor shall they be respited.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

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

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

Write to Major G. W. Lee, provost-marshal at Atlanta, and inquire why fourteen of the engine thieves were respited while the others were executed, and whether there is anything distinguishing their case.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

"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

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

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