How to Use respite in a Sentence

respite

noun

• The bad weather has continued without respite.
• For years, your column was a respite for me from the news of the day.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2020
• The only respite will be at the coast, where some places won’t climb out of the low 70s.
  — oregonlive, 26 June 2021
• The evening gave a warm respite ahead of Fashion Week chaos.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2022
• Sunday brought a brief respite with calmer winds and a break in the heat.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2020
• The result: a soothing space that’s a respite from the city but not a snooze.
  — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 21 June 2018
• The respite seemed at first like a sudden patch of sun in the middle of a hail storm.
  — Tanika Davis, baltimoresun.com, 15 May 2019
• Aguano wanted his team to have a respite, at least for a day.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2022
• His one place of respite was the tiny library on the shelter’s top floor.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• For me, the only true respite from the world is a cold, dark movie theater.
  — Matthew Kitchen, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• Squats and lifts became her respite, a way to calm her mind.
  — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
• But instead of respite, the fires gave way to flash flooding along the east coast.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2020
• Turn to them for respite and a reminder of what makes the world better, not worse.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• What remains to be seen is how long that respite will last.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• With a brief respite from the pain, the sports star was back to pushing after a two-hour nap.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• The conclusion most folks have come to is that sea chanteys are a respite.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 14 Jan. 2021
• But to the savvy, the river is a soothing respite from life's daily chaos.
  — Al Pierleoni, sacbee, 18 May 2018
• We long for a respite, a cove where simple rules are inscribed in the sand.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Thomas hopes that his palate cleanser will be a welcome respite.
  — Marissa Charles, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• The lazy river was a welcome respite after a day whizzing down the slopes.
  — Marissa Hermer, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2022
• But Mr Musk would get some respite from bores and boneheads.
  — The Economist, 26 May 2018
• The game on my iPhone has been my respite from anxiety.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 26 Dec. 2020
• And there will be little respite in the evenings as lows only drop into the 70s and 80s.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• Despite Thursday’s wet respite, Texas isn’t out of the woods yet.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
• Jonovich said Phoenix does not have any plans to offer overnight respite.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 29 May 2020
• Time in the blind is a respite, a time for friends to enjoy some normalcy.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
• Free one hour support group, Alzheimer's café, and four hour respite care.
  — Alan Goch, Jewish Journal, 10 July 2018
• One respite, not available last year, will be city pools.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• Rooms are sleek and modern, designed to be a respite from the busy world outside.
  — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2019
• There is no wind, and there are no open spaces to give one respite, a sense of air and freedom.
  — Burt Solomon, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 6 Jun 2024