Marilynne Robinson

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

American Novelist

Ash Sarkar

The key to stopping the hard-right nationalist forces poised to pounce on Brexit isn't going to be finessing a reprieve for the status quo. It's about actively creating consent for meaningful change, and expanding democratic participation beyond a second referendum.

British Journalist

Katie Pavlich

In many corners the concept of DACA is a fair and compassionate one, giving reprieve to children brought into the country illegally by their parents. But the way the program is lawfully mandated and implemented matters.

American Journalist

William Griffith Wilson

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

American Celebrity

Peter Wright

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

British Celebrity

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

Polish Journalist

Theodor W. Adorno

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

German Philosopher

Clint Smith

Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.

American Writer

Julian Barratt

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

English Comedian

Mason Cooley

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

A reprieve in the legal sense is usually temporary, not cancelling the punishment entirely.

Time Limited

A legal reprieve is granted by someone in authority, like a judge or a governor.

Authority's Decision

'Grant a reprieve' is a frequent pairing, denoting the action of giving someone the reprieve.

Common Collocations

When used as a verb, to reprieve means to temporarily stop something, especially a punishment.

Temporary Nature

Someone in a position of power usually decides to reprieve a punishment or difficult situation.

Decision Maker

Reprieve as a noun often means receiving a short period of relief or rest from something hard.

Relief Context

A reprieve usually implies a sense of relief or a positive break from difficulty.

Positive Feeling

To reprieve as a verb conveys providing comfort or easing a burden for someone.

Providing Comfort

To reprieve someone doesn't mean to remove the difficulty forever, often it's a temporary ease.

Not Permanent

 that keeps the the women you know from being blamed when an animal is killed or even potentially persecuted so they're more proud and they have more peace in their lives so what does this mean this is a reprieve reliance the roar the Lions has finally come back to this

A Story of Community and...

 The world finally stops. And because everything is in flux, I am forced to take a much-needed reprieve as that mysterious illness has been granted an extension.

Daniel J. Watts: To...

 reprieve for now but if next winter is harsh and the vegetation too deep under snow grazers like musk oxen will suffer many may starve weaken and die