What is "reprieves"

Usage examples of "reprieves".

Then Billy found the controls to the doors, and there were no more reprieves and no more excuses.

For this reason, and also because it was a time for holiday compassion, for prison reprieves and military truces, I did not interrupt his conversation with B.

In the short Reprieves between ice and flame, life units must grow enough manna to feed all through the dream walking.

They had not fought because they had prayed for last-minute reprieves, that their oppressors would change their minds, declare it all a monstrous practical joke, that they would, perhaps, be singled out and removed from the doomed mass, even that they would be rescued by some other force.

He'd always trusted her, but this was for life, no reprieves if the man turned out to be a gambler or a womanizer.