This should have proved expensive, but she was given a late reprieve.

"I think really what happened is that the neighborhood gave us a reprieve."

"Our good captain has given us only a short reprieve from the inevitable, if you get what I mean."

In the past, Congress has sometimes given doctors a reprieve for one or two years.

The lead was the club five, and South saw that he had been given a reprieve.

Murray has been given a reprieve, now he needs to make the most of it.

Will waited, daring to hope the information might give him a reprieve.

But it gave a reprieve to southern Florida, where the hurricane was expected to hit next.

He knew she stood on the brink of telling him something important, and he'd given her a reprieve.

As it turned out, nature gave both sides a reprieve.