How to Use reentry in a Sentence
reentry
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So at the very least, parts of it would burn up on reentry.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
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At first glance, the film seems fit for the actor’s reentry.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 May 2021
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In one case, a rear door was propped open and reentry was made to commit the theft.
—baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 May 2021
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The group stressed that as the time to reentry shrinks so will the uncertainty of the debris’ path.
—Victoria Cavaliere, Fortune, 30 July 2022
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Those who use the service can be at any stage of their reentry.
—Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2020
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LightSail 2’s fate is to burn up on reentry in about a year.
—Robert Z. Pearlman, Scientific American, 23 July 2019
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Reese has grabbed two rebounds since her reentry and has five in the game so far.
—Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
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Will parts of the satellite survive reentry and crash to Earth?
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
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Will parts of the satellite survive reentry and crash to Earth?
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
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And this is simply what these long reentry timescales give us, right?
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 7 May 2025
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At this point, my reentry into the curly world felt like learning to walk again.
—Liz Krieger, Allure, 15 Apr. 2025
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And none of these reentry events are ever exactly the same.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 July 2022
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This bootie feels like the ideal reentry point into, well, booties.
—Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2022
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Mikaela Shiffrin, who hadn’t raced the downhill in two years, had a rough reentry, finishing 26th and 38th.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2021
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The current outlook puts its reentry around March 2024.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2023
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The 5,000 mph reentry was a rough one and one of the four astronauts who just spent a week orbiting the moon has a spinal injury.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2023
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Some parts of derelict spacecraft will survive reentry and reach the surface.
—Martin N. Ross, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2020
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The plan calls for attaching a cargo ship to the old Pirs module in order to guide it to a fiery reentry.
—Fox News, 18 Nov. 2020
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The push for more funding for reentry efforts comes less than a month after the state announced the closure of Willard.
—Jaden Edison, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2023
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That said, reentry analysts do get lucky from time to time.
—Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
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None of the parts will be able to be examined, as the section holding the thrusters was tossed just before reentry.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2024
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The spacecraft heats up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit during reentry—about half as hot as the surface of the sun.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2024
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Nearly all of the spacecraft should have burned up during reentry.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
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For a decade, this worked: aura, pill, sleep, and then a blurry-eyed reentry into my life.
—Katy Schneider, The Cut, 31 Jan. 2018
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Passes are valid for the entire fair and allow reentry.
—San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2017
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The reentry process is known to cause spacecraft to light up as the intense speeds and pressure on the vehicle create a fiery blaze.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
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Health and safety continue to be the guiding force in our reentry process.
—Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2020
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Much of the space lab, which measures 34 feet in length, is expected to burn up during its reentry.
—The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 17 Oct. 2017
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Mission controllers lost contact with Starship, and the spacecraft spun out of control on reentry to Earth.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 1 June 2025
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And the company gave up hope of a soft splashdown for the vehicle, instead becoming resigned to a breakup over the Indian Ocean during Ship's reentry.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 May 2025
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