revert

How to use revert in a sentence

Unfortunately these people have no children; therefore on their death their property, now considerable, will revert to the master.

But though they use all their limbs as walking organs, they show no tendency to revert to the habit of the quadrupeds.

In the event of her death, this money shall revert to the parish of Pontiac, in whose graveyard I wish my body to lie.

But my thoughts would revert to these last words of Ormsby's.

So you see these actions are likely to revert to the sender, even if they are successful.

Is it not certain that the human race would revert to savagery, after those inventions had ceased to operate?

INVENTIONBRADLEY A. FISKE

The payments were to be made quarterly, and promptly, or the whole would be forfeited and revert to the original owner.

Let the Queensland sugar fields, and the seven millions sunk in them, revert to the desert waste they were before.

We revert now finally to the “manual arts” which a full course in home economics adds to an “academic” education.

As to a gift to one of the Prince's servants, it is to revert to his sons when the year of liberty or jubilee is celebrated.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985