relieve from

Example Sentences

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The second, he said, is for the judiciary to take legal steps against Salameh and relieve from from his post.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

"You instruct, inspect, reprimand and relieve from duty," explains O'Leary, whose World War II stint as an Air Force colonel has given him a fondness for military metaphor.

From Time Magazine Archive

As they had but little wood, their fare was confined to tea, and they hoped to find relieve from their fatigues by a sound sleep.

From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Huish, Robert

I went on the following day to my mother, and she and my sister Margaret returned with me to Cairncross, to relieve from smaller cares, as much as might be, our poor dear girl.

From In the Valley by Frederic, Harold

"We are not deprecating," he said, "your vengeance against those whom you have determined to put out of the way, but we entreat you to relieve from uncertainty those whom you have determined to spare."

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey