give a rest
Example Sentences
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His part-time off-breaks will give a rest to seamers James Anderson, Stuart Broad - the two highest wicket-takers at Lord’s - Ollie Robinson and Tongue.
From Washington Times • Jun. 27, 2023
One of the reasons envy does not take a holiday is that we never give a rest to the impulse to compare ourselves to one another.
From New York Times • May 4, 2018
After two-week shifts of labor at high altitude, they are give a rest to recuperate.
From Reuters • Apr. 3, 2013
Poulin was making his third start of the season to give a rest to Evgeni Nabokov, who has started all but six of the team's 37 games.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2013
We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday—the longer, the better—from the great boarding-school, where we are for ever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
From Some Christmas Stories by Dickens, Charles
