5 sentences with 'reverse'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reverse and other words derived from it.
• « The upward trend in crime began to reverse when a hardened hoodlum on parole killed policeman Jimmy Irby. »
• « Other sleep disturbances produce the reverse phenomenon: the case of those who wake up and, for a certain period of time, cannot move a muscle or make a sound. This is hypnagogic paralysis, which is not serious, but it is very frightening. »
• « In that sense, Turkey was like European imperialism in reverse: Western European states left a trail of bodies as they built empires around the world while Turkey's genocidal crime occurred during the imperial collapse. »
• « However, as soon as the war ended, men generally did their best to reverse many of the changes in gender roles it had caused. Through a combination of legal restrictions and quasi-legal practices, women were forced out of traditional male jobs, prevented from enrolling in universities and medical schools, and paid far less than men for the same work. »
• « Theorists have been speculating on a notion that would reverse this pitfall: the construction of an "air lung" that would shunt this oxygen from the atmosphere to the spacecraft. »