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
The Constable then, with three reverences, knelt before the King of the Revels, and, delivering up his naked sword, prayed to be taken into the royal service.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
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