How to Use revival in a Sentence

revival

noun
  • The city is showing signs of revival.
  • There are three musical revivals on Broadway this season.
  • The opera company is staging a revival of Verdi's Don Carlos.
  • Fashions from the 1970s are enjoying a revival.
  • In 1994, Shields was cast in the Broadway revival of Grease, a pivotal role for her.
    Lauren Dukoff, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The revival starring Odom is the first time the show returns to a New York stage since its debut.
    Mathew Rodriguez, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • This is the first major Broadway revival of Our Town in close to 25 years.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Trending With the early-2000s rock revival, Incubus has gained a lot of younger fans.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
  • But both Bloys and creator Jesse Armstrong know they’ll be asked about a revival for years to come.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The revival of the bill comes as India struggles with a low number of women in the workforce.
    Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • His late-career revival with the Clippers now has a chance to be more than a feel-good story.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Series creators Steve Ellis and David Doak were brought on board to help with the revival.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Hollywood had its reasons to root for the revival of the Golden Globes this year.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But this isn’t any old revival with a few tweaks and minor revisions.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Do the jewelry trends from the new collections predict the next trend revival?
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Eddie Redmayne will star in the Cabaret revival coming to Broadway this spring.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2023
  • It was also made of dark character-grade wood and had a Spanish revival vibe that didn’t feel anything like the home.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Its return represents a revival, a restoration of its grandeur, blurred but never quite lost in the tumult of the last decade or so.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Look two: a revival of McQueen’s bumsters, with a cropped tuxedo jacket cut into sharp points at the front and the rest of it balanced to swing at the back.
    Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The Mary Janes renaissance began on the fall 2022 runways, and the revivals of the timeless style were overall cooler, less-twee.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 11 July 2023
  • Starring in a too-soon revival of War Paint alongside Beanie Feldstein 3.
    Vulture, 9 May 2023
  • The long-awaiting revival of Louisville Gardens is still on track for 2024, city officials say.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The burst of activity is kindling hope that the moribund IPO market might be poised for a revival.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The Olivier Award-winning revival of Cabaret is headed to Broadway.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2023
  • Michele, 36, was on hand to perform as Fanny Brice from her still-running revival of Funny Girl.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
  • The series ran 11 seasons before being picked up for a revival on Paramount+ three decades later.
    Miles Beller, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
  • He was best known as the lead singer for Kings Go Forth, a Milwaukee soul band that generated a lot of buzz during a soul revival wave in 2010.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
  • That marked the beginning of a slow revival of interest that is still gathering pace.
    Catherine Hickey, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The procedures have seen a revival since passage of the 2017 tax law and as cyber and cryptocurrency frauds have mushroomed.
    Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • There, Beam began plotting the revival of the white supremacist movement he had been forced to abandon in Texas.
    TIME, 5 Feb. 2024

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