sense of relief
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandrelief
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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relief
noun
uk/rɪˈliːf/us/rɪˈliːf/
a feeling of happiness that something unpleasant has not happened or ...
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(Definition ofsenseandrelieffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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With neither patients nor family members present, laughter erupted, dispelling the tension, and creating an unexpected and welcomesenseofrelief.
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The family undeniably felt asenseofreliefafter this long period of continued stress and tensions.
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Thesenseofreliefthat the profession survived is palpable.
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What we see in their faces is asenseofreliefand liberation.
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There has been a greatsenseofrelief.
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My experience is that a change would bring asenseofrelief.
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One gets a greatsenseofreliefand pleasure on getting out of an aircraft in a strange country.
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They responded to the efforts we were making with asenseofrelief.
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I think that we can all feel a greatsenseofreliefabout that.
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There is also asenseofreliefthat the whole thing is just about finished.
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I rise, as a veteran of three telecommunications voyages, with asenseofreliefthat the harbour is at last in sight.
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The whole nation has felt a greatsenseofrelief.
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There was a greatsenseofreliefwhen, as a result of pressure, the agreement was finally signed.
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He said that he felt asenseofrelief.
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He said that these amendments have caused asenseofrelief.
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I still feel the greatsenseofreliefthat the war was over.
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In most factories, there is an enormoussenseofreliefamong business men that their heads are no longer being battered against the wall.
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There is throughout the world at this time an immensesenseofreliefand thankfulness that was has been averted.
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However, asenseofreliefshould not be attended by reckless carelessness.
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