How to use "receive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "receive" in popular movie and book plots

  • Relatives soon receive telegrams informing them about the fate of their loved ones.  - In Which We Serve
  • Afterwards, she begins to receive calls from Paramount executive Gordon Cole, but petulantly refuses to speak to anyone except DeMille.  - Sunset Boulevard (film)
  • forces receive a message from the Soviets asking for a policy-level officer to go to them for a gravely urgent conference.  - Second Variety
  • Soon after, five of them attack him while he is buying supplies, and receive a severe beating as a result.  - Fire Down Below (1997 film)
  • Some receive checks to pay for expensive medical procedures to heal crippling illnesses and others find employment.  - Rigoletto (film)
  • Jimmy and Henry receive ten-year prison sentences.  - Goodfellas
  • Hours after the attack is over, General Short and Admiral Kimmel finally receive Marshall's telegram warning of impending danger.  - Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Morbius refuses, claiming that "humanity is not yet ready to receive such limitless power".  - Forbidden Planet
  • She has Oscar unknowingly receive the same treatments.  - Glory Road
  • There she agrees to receive permanent marks of Sir Stephen's ownership, in the form of a brand and a steel tag hanging from a labia piercing.  - Story of O
  • Arabella suggests John do a portrait for Chandler, suggesting he would receive an impressive commission.  - Animal Crackers (1930 film)
  • He tries to make money by agreeing to receive oral sex from a young man (Bob Balaban) in a movie theater.  - Midnight Cowboy
  • The last advice the students receive is to "watch out for stobor".  - Tunnel in the Sky
  • Cooper doubts Horne's guilt, so he gathers all of his suspects in the belief that he will receive a sign to help him identify the killer.  - Twin Peaks
  • Failing to receive redemption in the church, Charlie seeks it through sacrificing himself on Johnny's behalf.  - Mean Streets
  • Aki has a vision of the Phantom home planet, where she is able to receive the eighth spirit from the alien particles in herself.  - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

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