Respective

//ɹɪˈspɛktɪv//

"Respective" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Go to your respective seats.

Let's discuss the respective merits of the candidates.

They went home to their respective houses.

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The goal of Spartacus was to gain freedom and to allow all his followers to return to their respective homelands of origin, in Thrace, Gaul, Germany.

We each went to our respective homes.

They took their respective places in line.

Each member of the city council received an annual allocation of discretionary funds which could be used to support special projects in their respective council districts.

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They returned to their respective places of abode.

Adam and Novikovas swapped long-range efforts, neither of which troubled the respective keepers.

Hitachi and CAF have begun a staged return to work at their respective Newton Aycliffe and Newport factories, having reduced output following the COVID-19 outbreak.

c. 1559-1570, Edwin Sandys, letter to Bernard Gilpin But if you looke upon the estate of the church of England with a respective eye , you cannot with a good conscience refuse this charge imposed upon you

the respective connections of society

What should it be that he respects in her / But I can make respective in myself,

With a respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.

a. 1598, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, instructions to his son Robert Cecil, when young With thy equals familiar, yet respective.

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