Sentences with 'respite'
Example sentences and phrases with the word respite and other words derived from it.
• « When crops failed, the poor often flocked to the cities in search of some kind of respite, be it work or church-based charity. »
• « Incredibly, the Soviets were able to use this respite to literally dismantle their factories and transport them to the east, out of range of German bombers. Entire factories, particularly in the Ukraine, were stripped of engines, turbines and any other useful equipment that could be moved, and shipped hundreds of miles away from the front lines. There, they were rebuilt and put back to work. »