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

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

  • Homer decides to reform his ways and become the nicest guy in town.  - 'Tis the Fifteenth Season
  • Violet eventually returns to Nell’s after quarreling with Bellocq, but social reform groups are forcing the brothels of Storyville to close.  - Pretty Baby (1978 film)
  • He tells Vaska that he will be able to reform in Siberia, and he assures the Actor that at a sanatorium he could be cured of alcoholism.  - The Lower Depths
  • Moon Boy, however, is the most recent on an attempt to reform a seriously evil soul.  - The Story of the Stone (Barry Hughart)
  • But her disdain for the town's physical ugliness and smug conservatism compels her to reform it.  - Main Street (novel)
  • Rutt and Tuke, having had a falling out, reform their brotherhood in front of Koda, prompting him to go after Kenai.  - Brother Bear
  • Stoltz realizes that he can no longer hope to reform Oblomov, and leaves.  - Oblomov
  • After being released from the detention center, he is sent to a Jesuit reform school in northern Minnesota.  - Underworld (DeLillo novel)
  • According to Eggy, Ann wants to reform him: make him drink less, and get a job as well.  - Laughing Gas (novel)
  • Helen, blinded by love, marries him, and resolves to reform him with gentle persuasion and good example.  - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Thorough-going education reform is described, along with a highly localized system of universal medical care.  - Ecotopia
  • Jerry, the faster runner, escaped from police, while Rocky was caught and sentenced to reform school.  - Angels with Dirty Faces
  • By the river, he tells her he was sent to reform school as a boy for stealing a motorcycle and that his whole life is a failure.  - Picnic (1955 film)
  • Villa appoints himself president but is ineffectual, unable to restore Madero's dream of land reform for Mexico's poor.  - Viva Villa!
  • Gus suspects nothing; he worries only that Cummings will reform his bar and scare away his customers.  - She Done Him Wrong
  • The explosion of Genesis causes the gas in the nebula to reform into a new planet, capable of sustaining life.  - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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