Sentence examples for it was reserved for from inspiring English sources

The novelist Alexandre Dumas was strongly critical of the construction of the new bridge, commenting that "it was reserved for the eighteenth century to dishonour a monument which the barbarians of the fifth had not dared to destroy".

Sun protection has been the purpose of the parasol since its early appearance in ancient Egypt, where it was reserved for royalty and carried by a bearer.

Mr. Robathan, a junior defense minister, told her that it was reserved for members of Parliament.

Soldiers blocked the main road out of the town, however, saying it was reserved for settlers.

(They hardly ever used that word, "breasts". It was reserved for medical matters, uttered in lowered voices).

He lives across the street from the high school he graduated from in 1955, when it was reserved for blacks.

Should it be reserved for initiates?

It's reserved for club members, apparently.

In America it is reserved for the old and impecunious.

It is reserved for the people who come to visit.

It is reserved for someone with a bicycle.