RELAY in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for RELAY, such as:

1. They will relay your message.
2. He relayed the message to his boss.
3. Instructions were relayed to him by phone.
4. Rescuers worked in relays to save the trapped miners.
5. The relays are badly served, the horses are in the fields.

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 Meanings and Examples of RELAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
relay
 n.  act of passing something along from one person, group, or station to another
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Monsieur will have to wait three or four hours at the least at every relay.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
2  "That will serve us for a relay," said Athos.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
3  He had only been back an hour or two; he had accompanied his wife to the place of her confinement, or else at least to the first relay.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
4  The man remained in the village; the woman had had a relay of horses, and continued her journey.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
5  Among them were grooms leading the Tsar's beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered cloths.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
6  At Kamenka a relay of horses was to wait which would take them to the Warsaw highroad, and from there they would hasten abroad with post horses.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI
7  This could not all be arranged that day, so on Evstafey's representation Pierre had to put off his departure till next day to allow time for the relay horses to be sent on in advance.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
8  He was luxuriously stretched in a good English calash, with double springs; he was drawn by four good horses, at full gallop; he knew the relay to be at a distance of seven leagues.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 114. Peppino.
9  The news was uncertain, slow in coming, for the battle had been fought in the enemy's territory and the reports came first through Maryland, were relayed to Richmond and then to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  There was a great relaying of the table, and the best cups brought and the best tea-pot.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  The relays are badly served, the horses are in the fields.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
12  Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
13  You will find, in the same way, four relays on your route.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
14  If you will give at each of these relays your address in Paris, the four horses will follow you thither.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
15  On condition that you will lend me three thousand roubles, I will stand you the cost of the wedding, the koliaska, and the relays of horses.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  They will relay your message.
2  Britain's prospects of beating the United States in the relay looked poor.
3  Second connection to the relay is a cable to the network port on the PC.
4  It was the latest stage in Race Across America, a coast-to-coast relay bicycle marathon through deserts, mountains and plains that is one of the most formidable endurance events in the world.
5  In ancient times the messages were relayed from one place to another.
6  He relayed the message to his boss.
7  Instructions were relayed to him by phone.
8  On Sunday, her father, John Newman, relayed what rescuers told him and what she told him about her misadventure in the snow and the incredible story of how she was kept from death.
9  Rescuers worked in relays to save the trapped miners.