How do you use the word "reserve" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "reserve" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "reserve": It would help us if you would reserve the following hotel during our conference. I'd like to reserve a table for three.

Reserve Meaning

/ɹɪˈzɝv/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA restriction.

nounA restriction., The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.

Sentence Examples

It would help us if you would reserve the following hotel during our conference.

I'd like to reserve a table for three.

I'd like to reserve a table for three for eight o'clock.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

allow substitute stockpile

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

I need to ____ a table for dinner tonight due to the high demand.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The club decided to ____ judgment on the new signing until he had played several competitive matches.

Word Origin & History

From Old French reserver, from Latin reservō (“to reserve, retain”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The tone was set at Trump’s Inauguration. Tech moguls streamed into Washington; some sat behind the President during his Inaugural Address, a signal of the power they would wield. Over the next 11 months, they would use their enormous cash reserves, cultural power, and momentum to push their products into homes across the world." — 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time:

"If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction." — 2014 April 25, Martin Lukacs, “Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 20, page 13:

"Each is decorated with a simple disk in reserve and a band in reserve adorned with white dots." — 1973, Charles Kyrle Wilkinson, Nishapur: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period, New York, N.Y: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 161:

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