REKINDLE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for REKINDLE, such as:

1. This message will rekindle hopes.
2. He blew hard on the ashes to rekindle the fire.
3. Ben Brantley's article on Sir Ian McKellen rekindled many memories.
4. Having rekindled the fire, she thought she would go to market while the water heated.
5. It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood.

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 Meanings and Examples of REKINDLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rekindle
 v.  arouse again
Classic Sentence:
1  I descended cautiously to the lower regions, and landed in the back-kitchen, where a gleam of fire, raked compactly together, enabled me to rekindle my candle.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  He received the enthusiastic greeting of his young acquaintance with evident pleasure, as though his chilled affections were rekindled and invigorated by his contact with one so warm and ardent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
3  Having rekindled the fire, she thought she would go to market while the water heated.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
4  It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  This message will rekindle hopes.
2  In his novels and stories, storms rage for years, flowers drift from the skies, tyrants survive for centuries, priests levitate and corpses fail to decompose. And, more plausibly, lovers rekindle their passion after a half-century apart.
3  He blew hard on the ashes to rekindle the fire.
4  Ben Brantley's article on Sir Ian McKellen rekindled many memories.
5  The marches are a rekindling of a regular tactic during last year's student unrest and are anchored on the same theme: anger over government increases in the cost of education.