revive

How To Use revive In A Sentence

• In 1936 a Polish Anthropologist named Sula Benet discovered that in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament the word "kaneh bosm" had been translated as calamus by the Greeks when they first rendered the Books in the 3rd century B.C., and then propagated as such in all future translations from the Greek as Hebrew ceased to be a spoken language, not again revived until the 1800's. Phelps and Obama-- leading the way Towards legalizing Marijuana.
• The English were among the first to revive the "Louis XIV style" as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.
• A similar problem came up yesterday in reading a Boris Akunin story called Strast' i dolg Passion and duty, set in an alternate Russia which has revived tsardom, along with its Table of Ranks and all the rest of the imperial paraphernalia. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS.
• The domino theory was revived. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
• Later presidents tried to revive it to conjure up domestic support for their beleaguered policies.
• With a glazed stare she revived for one last instant.
• But memories of prior political awakenings that ended disastrously were revived when the Polish military cracked down in 1981.
• Tell her how lonely you feel and ask how you can revive her interest. The Sun
• The sultan's response was polite but unforthcoming: ‘The matter has been resolved amicably and I do not think it would serve any purpose to revive it.’
• And the third, a lapsed neopagan, revived her religious practice online and was the only one of the three who stayed there.