Revels
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024
The selection represented a wide variety of art forms, sizes and funding levels, from Tacoma’s Puget Sound Revels, which performs music and theater and was awarded $2,800, to Redmond’s Centro Cultural Mexicano, which received $25,000.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023
“I would say, in most of the places I travel, in small towns, Covid is over,” said Brady Revels, a sales representative who lives in suburban Omaha and is vaccinated.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2022
He followed in the distant footsteps of African Americans Hiram Revels, elected in 1870 to fill a Senate seat from Mississippi, and Blanche K. Bruce, elected to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2021
Cynthia's Revels has the same defects, but is to some extent saved by its sharp raillery of euphuism.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
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