revise

How to use revise in a sentence

A convention of delegates to revise the constitution of New York met at Albany.

But my limited experience of the Mahajan of Champaran has made me revise the accepted opinion about his 'blighting influence.'

He had great faith in the opinions of his little helper, and was always ready to revise his own judgment if hers contradicted it.

The results will surprise them, and they will quickly be forced to revise their methods of treating illness.

The London publishers of the Yankee were keenly anxious to revise the text for their English readers.

From Lyons, therefore, second city of the Empire, was summoned a popular assembly to revise the constitution.

That is not a pretty message: revise it for me, pray, for I am weary and ailing, and thinking of a sister who is slowly dying.

We can call such languages inflective, if we like, but we must then be prepared to revise radically our notion of inflective form.

LANGUAGEEDWARD SAPIR

I send you by to-day's post the conclusion of the poem in MS., and the eighteen sheets of revise.

It is now the purpose of the Committee on Studies to so revise the course of study that all grammar class-rooms will be full.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985

WORD OF THE DAY