How To Use Redouble In A Sentence

Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
despite our redoubled efforts
Tara of Helium saw it coming and leaped for the tree toward which she had been moving, and the banth realized her intention and redoubled his speed. The Chessmen of Mars
Then he arose and clomb the mast to see an there were any escape from that strait; and he would have loosed the sails; but the wind redoubled upon the ship and whirled her round thrice and drave her backwards; whereupon her rudder brake and she fell off towards a high mountain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Had they known, they would, I am sure, have redoubled their efforts.

On the contrary, its suffering appears merely to have redoubled its determination to resist. Times, Sunday Times
The noise redoubled, and sleep was out of the question.
If anything, this act of violence has redoubled our efforts to make this community stronger.
He tried to redouble his efforts, and began to follow his own fitness programme to build up his strength. Coping with Angina
Ten tricks and redoubled game made. Times, Sunday Times
The confidence of the Milanese redoubled when they learned that he had promised the members of the assembled clergy to maintain the catholic worship and clergy as already established, and had compelled them to take the oath of fidelity to the cisalpine republic. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
Perigordian redoubled his politeness and attentions. Candide
If someone then bids higher, any previous doubles and redoubles are cancelled.
We must redouble efforts to ensure nobody who needs help is turned away. The Sun
As a nation we must redouble our efforts. The Sun
But far from being examined - let alone disavowed - the policies behind these developments are being redoubled.
(The English version follows the French.) redoubler (ruh-doo-blay) verb Pensées
As a nation we must redouble our efforts. The Sun
His cultus was the bond between Him and the nation; when therefore it was desired to draw the bond still closer, the solemn services of religion were redoubled. Prolegomena
The noise redoubled, and sleep was out of the question.
STAFF at a nursery are having to redouble their efforts after five sets of twins enrolled. The Sun
The checks and safeguards that should be in place for all public buildings must now be redoubled, as they no doubt will be. Times, Sunday Times
Charles attempted to exploit the rift between army and Parliament and redoubled his efforts to persuade the Scots to assist him.
Double it, and declarer has the clue he needs to make the game, redoubled to boot. Times, Sunday Times
But nature could not long endure a pleasure that it so highly provoked without satisfying it: pursuing then its darling end, the battery recommenced with redoubled exertion; nor lay I inactive on my side, but encountering him with all the impetuosity of motion I was mistress of, the downy cloth of our meeting mount was now of real use to break the violence of the tilt; and soon, indeed! the highwrought agitation, the sweet urgency of this to-and-fro friction, raised the titillation on me to its height; so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
Take two deals with a theme - beware of doubling after an unlimited auction, or they might redouble and make. Times, Sunday Times
Nine tricks and redoubled game made. Times, Sunday Times
Shimas and said to him, O sage philosopher and experienced master, seest thou not that this ignorant lad cloth naught but redouble in falsehood to us? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But across the old frontiers we must now redouble our efforts internationally. Times, Sunday Times
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the Barbarians. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
On the contrary, its suffering appears merely to have redoubled its determination to resist. Times, Sunday Times
I'm going to have to redouble my efforts. Times, Sunday Times
The games can be doubled and redoubled as in bridge.
The fox redoubled on its trail to escape the hunters.
Bientot je fis prendre a mon malade une forte tasse de mon elixir de vie; il le but avec avidite, et voulait redoubler; mais j’exigeai un, ajournement de deux heures, et lui servis une seconde dose avant de me retirer. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
The leading banks are expected to redouble their efforts to keep the value of the dollar down.
Here efforts must be redoubled. Times, Sunday Times
Le vent redouble ses efforts, Et fait si bien qu'il deracine Celui de qui la tete au ciel etait voisine ... Mr. Speaker
If we redouble our efforts, our dream will translate into reality.
The president also called on nations to redouble their efforts to negotiate an international trade agreement.
I'm going to have to redouble my efforts. Times, Sunday Times
Expressions: redoubler d'efforts = to strive harder than ever redoubler une classe = to repeat a year or a grade, to be held back redoubler de prudence/de vigilance = to be extra careful/vigilant redoubler le chagrin de quelqu'un = to add to someone's grief Pensées
The checks and safeguards that should be in place for all public buildings must now be redoubled, as they no doubt will be. Times, Sunday Times
Not that Stoke fans were happy at the news, fearing that their opponents would redouble their efforts. Times, Sunday Times
And when the initial chaos was over, they redoubled their efforts to get their business off the ground. Times, Sunday Times
He redoubled his speed when he saw the finishing line ahead.
The tattle and titillation only makes him redouble attempts to disclose his real self and we're slowly becoming suffocated under the continued weight of his effort.
My “rage” returns but now redoubled, quadrupled, no, octupled, indeed upled beyond all hope of measurement. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Obama Effect” Spurs Record Number of Nobel Peace Prize Nominations
The leading banks are expected to redouble their efforts to keep the value of the dollar down.
The economy remains very weak and he must redouble efforts to bolster the recovery. Times, Sunday Times
So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; nor did the swords cease on the napes of men to make play nor the strife to rage with more and more affray, till the most part of the night was past away and the two hosts were aweary of the mellay. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We must redouble efforts to ensure nobody who needs help is turned away. The Sun
The noise doubled and redoubled
The players now bid as in Contract Bridge (doubles and redoubles are allowed), until one player passes.
When he saw the land ahead, the swimmer redoubled his speed.
South doubled and West redoubled to end the auction. Times, Sunday Times
April suddenly felt her desire to fulfill her oath to Zoe redouble.
He redoubled his speed when he saw the finishing line ahead.
There may be no crash, but will they double and redouble again? Times, Sunday Times
Hence, while necessary, ‘drawing the line’ is at the same time impossible, for each drawing of the line redoubles and redraws the line.
STAFF at a nursery are having to redouble their efforts after five sets of twins enrolled. The Sun
The man stumbled back, then redoubled his efforts, swinging with increasing speed and strength.
When doubling a player who has already doubled you, it is conventional to use the word ‘redouble‘.
He tried to redouble his efforts, and began to follow his own fitness programme to build up his strength. Coping with Angina
Not that Stoke fans were happy at the news, fearing that their opponents would redouble their efforts. Times, Sunday Times
But Sheffield, who had survived two spot kick claims against goalkeeper Alan Kelly and full-back Ward, simply redoubled their efforts.
April suddenly felt her desire to fulfill her oath to Zoe redouble.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
The economy remains very weak and he must redouble efforts to bolster the recovery. Times, Sunday Times
Dr Swire redoubled his efforts to get to the bottom of the crime. Times, Sunday Times
Instability within the comital house thus reinforced and redoubled political strife within Bruges.
Arun groaned, a sound that redoubled in frustration as he saw the wooden bowl resting on the ground.
He redoubled his speed when he saw the finishing line ahead.
The fox redoubled on its trail to escape the hunters.
City opponents have redoubled their assaults, sensing that a Tory victory is not impossible.
Here efforts must be redoubled. Times, Sunday Times
redoubler (ruh-doo-blay) verb 1. to increase, to intensify, to step up, to redouble 2. to repeat a year (school) Pensées
He is closing on the last remaining competitor who, in panic, redoubles his efforts to coax his own damaged, worn out and jury-rigged boat faster, causing it to break up entirely and sink.
John she at once attacked for his past coolness and unneighbourly conduct in abstaining from ever calling upon her; and he, when he had entered the parlour, and was met by Eleanor with just sufficient confusion and reserve to make her more than ever interesting, and with a warmth that quite overcame him, felt the old fire in his heart burning with redoubled fury. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
We must redouble efforts to ensure nobody who needs help is turned away. The Sun
we faced redoubled attacks from the enemy
We must redouble our efforts to stop people going. The Sun
There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, pantoums, rondeaux, rondels, rondeau redoubles, Sicilian octaves, roundels, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
The noise redoubled, and sleep was out of the question.
Not downhearted, the Cumbrians redoubled their efforts.
But across the old frontiers we must now redouble our efforts internationally. Times, Sunday Times
I will now redouble my efforts to support his case. Times, Sunday Times
Opponents redouble their efforts against them, expectations soar, they are scrutinised down to the smallest detail. Times, Sunday Times
In Beijing Duan redoubled his efforts to strengthen his position.
This is a textbook position in which to use the SOS redouble.
South doubled and West redoubled to end the auction. Times, Sunday Times
Any double or redouble is superseded by a subsequent legal bid.
redoubler d'efforts = to strive harder than ever redoubler une classe = to repeat a year or a grade, to be held back redoubler de prudence/de vigilance = to be extra careful/vigilant redoubler le chagrin de quelqu'un = to add to someone's grief Pensées
It's a bad business, and we must redouble our efforts to forestall it. Christianity Today
Adrian's declared predeliction to the republican form of government, the latter party had nearly died away, chiefless, guideless; but, when Lord Raymond came forward as its leader, it revived with redoubled force. I.4
Ten tricks and redoubled game made. Times, Sunday Times
MY is fundamentally wrong in placing his faith in the sort of monetary policies that brought us into the mess and have been redoubled in trying to fix it. Matthew Yglesias » The ECB’s Complacency
Page 44 it would seem, that you do not only chuckle with a demoniac joy over what you suppose are the exquisite tortures of my sensibilities but your ecstacies are redoubled and refined in the proud contemplation of the additional fact that you are the author of my terrible agonies, the illiad of all my woes. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
We redouble our efforts for Manhan's release.
As the shouts redoubled, and mingled with the various clangors of battle, drew nearer the tower, the impatience of the earl could not be restrained. The Scottish Chiefs
Gatwick is to redouble its campaign to lobby the government over the coming weeks and months. Times, Sunday Times
We must redouble efforts to ensure nobody who needs help is turned away. The Sun
There may be no crash, but will they double and redouble again? Times, Sunday Times
It may be that the most difficult poetic form isn't the sestina or the rondeau redoublé but a modernist, free-verse form commonly known as the ‘skinny’ poem: three-, two-, and often one-word lines expose the poet's every gesture.
The frisson that he caused was still sweeping through the gallery when it paused and then redoubled.
It's not all over yet - we'll just redouble our efforts to catch them.
At the same time, Europe and America must redouble their efforts to strengthen the imperfect but necessary system of international governance.
Now try to defeat the redoubled game. Times, Sunday Times
If someone then bids higher, any previous doubles and redoubles are cancelled.
Under their instruction, he redoubled his efforts.
It has also urged the council to redouble its efforts to recruit more school crossing patrols.
He barraged volunteers with e-mails in his name, exhorting them to redouble their efforts and reinforcing the specific and coordinated messages they were to give voters. O: A Presidential Novel
The folk rejoiced in her song with exceeding joy and my gladness redoubled, so that I took the lute from the damsel and preluding after the most melodious fashion, sang these couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Louisiana perioperative nurses redoubled their efforts by reenergizing their members.
The leading banks are expected to redouble their efforts to keep the value of the dollar down.
We must redouble our efforts to stop people going. The Sun
The screaming redoubled
The games can be doubled and redoubled as in bridge.
And when, at last, our guides and servants, mounting to pinnacles and jutting points, and many a frieze and coigne of vantage, placed blue lights on them all, and at the word illuminated all together, there was redoubled bedlam in that abode of Hecate, and the eternal calm of the Boodh became awful. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
Bientot je fis prendre a mon malade une forte tasse de mon elixir de vie; il le but avec avidite, et voulait redoubler; mais j'exigeai un, ajournement de deux heures, et lui servis une seconde dose avant de me retirer. The Physiology of Taste
Well planned and organized coordination doubles and redoubles the combat capability of a combat force package.
When he saw the land ahead, the swimmer redoubled his speed.
It's a bad business, and we must redouble our efforts to forestall it. Christianity Today
Now try to defeat the redoubled game. Times, Sunday Times
C'est le naturel du coeur humain de redoubler ses efforts pour retenir le bien qu'on lui ôte. Pensées
Double it, and declarer has the clue he needs to make the game, redoubled to boot. Times, Sunday Times
He came hurrying aft, nearly tumbling once; while, left to his own power alone, the coxswain redoubled his efforts to keep down the water, and the tin baler went _scoop scroop, scoop scroop_, and _splash splash_, as he sent the water flying. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
Cries of joy went up from the Colwells and they redoubled their strokings and cooings while Roopy, his big spaniel eyes liquid and pathetic, gazed around him at each of us in turn. Every living thing
There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, pantoums, rondeaux, rondels, rondeau redoubles, Sicilian octaves, roundels, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
When he saw the land ahead, the swimmer redoubled his speed.
Sensing that the arguments and public opinion are moving against them, opponents will also redouble their efforts to instil fear of change. Times, Sunday Times
We must redouble efforts to ensure nobody who needs help is turned away. The Sun
Instead they redoubled their efforts, and with two goals inside three minutes, they turned on its head an encounter that appeared to be slipping away from them.
Dr Swire redoubled his efforts to get to the bottom of the crime. Times, Sunday Times
Opponents redouble their efforts against them, expectations soar, they are scrutinised down to the smallest detail. Times, Sunday Times
After Adrian's declared predeliction to the republican form of government, the latter party had nearly died away, chiefless, guideless; but, when Lord Raymond came forward as its leader, it revived with redoubled force. The Last Man
Her words revitalize him, and Adams redoubles his efforts to turn the naysayers into yeasayers.
But as the industrial towns doubled and redoubled in size, the need for action to provide open spaces and to preserve existing commons became obvious.
And when the initial chaos was over, they redoubled their efforts to get their business off the ground. Times, Sunday Times
Declarer should recognise that this is a desperation double, and redouble it (if it really came from a good hand, the doubler would have doubled the other players as well).
Mr. Maliki has also redoubled efforts to head off provincial semiautonomy plans. Iraq Crisis Grows With New Threat
Sensing that the arguments and public opinion are moving against them, opponents will also redouble their efforts to instil fear of change. Times, Sunday Times
Presently, it seemed to him he beheld her form before him, whereupon fires flamed in him and his griefs redoubled and he fell down aswoon; — And The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Thus, in August he officially redoubled his efforts to control inflation by decreeing the "law of costs and fair prices. Chávez's 40-Year Plan to Conquer Vice
We must redouble efforts to ensure nobody who needs help is turned away. The Sun
When a bhikkhu meditated on the Chain and saw it yogically, becoming mindful of the way each thought and sensation rose and fell away, he acquired a “direct knowledge” ofthe Truth that nothing could be relied upon, that everything was impermanent (anicca), and would be inspired to redouble his efforts to extricate himself from this endless Chain of cause and effect. Buddha
I will now redouble my efforts to support his case. Times, Sunday Times
Take two deals with a theme - beware of doubling after an unlimited auction, or they might redouble and make. Times, Sunday Times
But she only redoubled in ferocity and ordered the slave girls to pinion my hands behind me, which they did; and, throwing me on my back, she seated herself on my middle and held down my head. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio
We must redouble efforts to ensure nobody who needs help is turned away. The Sun
The presence of Indiana redoubled the aukwardness of the situation, and her blushes, and the increased lustre of her eyes, did not make the report seem either unwelcome, or perfectly new to her. Camilla
The conventional wisdom is that, in order to increase food supply to feed the hungry of the world, we need to redouble efforts to modernize agriculture.
Nine tricks and redoubled game made. Times, Sunday Times

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