Thesaurus / revert
FEEDBACKHow 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.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO BRAZILMARIA GRAHAMBut though they use all their limbs as walking organs, they show no tendency to revert to the habit of the quadrupeds.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISIn the event of her death, this money shall revert to the parish of Pontiac, in whose graveyard I wish my body to lie.
WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERBut my thoughts would revert to these last words of Ormsby's.
MY NEW CURATEP.A. SHEEHANSo you see these actions are likely to revert to the sender, even if they are successful.
THE HIDDEN POWERTHOMAS TROWARDIs it not certain that the human race would revert to savagery, after those inventions had ceased to operate?
INVENTIONBRADLEY A. FISKEThe payments were to be made quarterly, and promptly, or the whole would be forfeited and revert to the original owner.
CHOICE READINGS FOR THE HOME CIRCLEANONYMOUSLet the Queensland sugar fields, and the seven millions sunk in them, revert to the desert waste they were before.
THIRTY YEARS IN AUSTRALIAADA CAMBRIDGEWe revert now finally to the “manual arts” which a full course in home economics adds to an “academic” education.
THE WOMEN OF TOMORROWWILLIAM HARDAs 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.
THE PROPHET EZEKIELARNO C. GAEBELEINWORDS RELATED TO REVERT
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