How to Use received in a Sentence

received

adjective

• What was radical thinking in times past has become received wisdom today.
• This is the constant and received teaching of the Church.
  — Tim Morris, NOLA.com, 9 May 2017
• The received wisdom is that the Netherlands should have won the 1974 World Cup.
  — SI.com, 9 June 2018
• The color-blind casting in the film has been very well received.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2019
• All of them were well received, judging by the laughter.
  — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2019
• The fact of that is, in the last ten or fifteen years, my work has been really well received.
  — Jeff Slate, Esquire, 2 Mar. 2018
• Since the release, the diapers have been very well received.
  — Kynala Phillips, Essence, 16 July 2019
• Laksmi, a koala, was one of the marsupials the received help.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• The Mac & Cheese was tested in five markets, and according to the statement, the new side was very well received.
  — Ricky Pinela, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• But that was not an argument that was very well received.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 July 2018
• To avoid the death penalty, Cron pleaded guilty and received life without parole.
  — Matt Goldfarb, CBS News, 19 June 2019
• The rate was even lower for Black people, where only one in 12 received treatment, the study revealed.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 20 July 2022
• The remainder of the light is used to set the phase of its own laser, which is sent back to the master satellite—the received laser light is too weak to just be reflected back.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 July 2019
• Thirteen teams in Broward and Palm Beach counties earned rankings in their classes, and three more received votes.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• And while restaurant gift cards may have been a go-to gift for holidays past, giving the pleasure of not even having to leave the house, may be much more well received.
  — Melissa Kravitz, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2017
• The children, a 2-year-old and a 6-month-old, received emergency treatment but both later died due to their injuries.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 30 June 2017
• The facility has so far received five of those patients.
  — Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• Ars has reached out to Shadow for further details about the kinks in its Iowa data pipeline but has thus far received no response.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
• Misterwives did a buoyant 45-minute opening set that was very well received.
  — George Paul, Orange County Register, 29 Mar. 2017
• At one point, Jimmie hears two cool girls on the bus complaining, with the received pieties that people use, about what San Francisco has become.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
• A day after the family of four received notice to leave their $837-a-month, one-bedroom unit, Contreras went to the hospital with chest pains.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• The series has been extremely popular, and the palette was very well received, but many felt that something was missing.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 13 Nov. 2019
• The received wisdom in the gun industry is that sales spike when Democrats hold the White House (because of fears that your guns will be taken away) and plummet when Republicans do.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
• If Day Shift is well received, don't be surprised to find Perry and Stahelski reteaming for a sequel or two.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• In the two years since the incident, Juul has not received FDA approval as a smoking cessation device.
  — Arman Azad, CNN, 25 July 2019
• The plan for the medical school has so far received widespread support from Tyler officials and East Texas lawmakers.
  — María Méndez, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
• And who can forget a certain soda brand's poorly-received attempt to weigh in on #BlackLivesMatter a few years ago?
  — Yael Klass, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Blomberg has so far received bills covering only some of her treatment and prescriptions.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 May 2020
• The bloc had shared proposals with the United States as recently as July for a new regime on aircraft subsidies, but had so far received no response.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
• Single motherhood, health, women’s legal status and more received scrutiny, and the site looked far beyond the borders of the United States.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024