Example Sentences

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By tackling what seemed like a hopeless task�the Panama Canal treaties�we have redressed a historical wrong, and we have opened up opportunities for a new relationship.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have redressed grievances, righted the injured, chastised the insolent, vanquished giants.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

An injury sharpen’d by an insult, be it to whom it will, makes every man of sentiment a party: I could have leap’d out of the box to have redressed it.

From A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Sterne, Laurence

The Protestants, however, presented a list of grievances which they wished to have redressed before they listened to his request.

From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Henceforth the single redress for the English of this capital oversight, but which never could have redressed it effectually, was to vitiate and taint the coronation of Charles VII as the work of a witch.

From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by De Quincey, Thomas