How to Use relight in a Sentence
relight
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Do not try to relight or retrieve fireworks that have not fully ignited.
—Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 3 July 2026
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Ship also managed to relight one of its engines in space and deploy eight dummy payloads.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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Super Heavy's boostback burn was also cut short when five of its 33 engines failed to relight.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 13 July 2026
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Fisher knows how to operate in the NIL era, though, and getting fired could relight his flame.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2025
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Fixing the Western Auto sign Devising a plan to relight the sign has had its drama.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
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However, the engines needed for the landing burn failed to relight properly, causing the booster to tumble and break apart after hitting the sea.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 23 May 2026
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Ship also managed to relight one of its Raptors in space, demonstrating an ability that will be crucial for future missions to the moon and Mars.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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SpaceX also intends for the upper stage to relight one of its six Raptor engines while in space, a key demonstration of technology needed for a deorbit burn when the spacecraft someday returns to Earth from space.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 17 May 2026
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Ship, meanwhile, will aim to deploy eight dummy versions of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites, relight one of its six Raptor engines in space, and come down in the Indian Ocean about 66 minutes post-launch.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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The City of Los Angeles has hired a firm to help relight the 6th Street Bridge, which has fallen victim to rampant copper theft in recent months, before the 2028 Summer Olympics head to town.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
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The Bureau of Engineering selected Tetra Tech, a global engineering firm, to fortify and relight the stretch of road that connects downtown Los Angeles to Boyle Heights, which has essentially gone dark due to the amount of copper theft plaguing the area.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
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For more than a year, the city of Kansas City had been working with the tenants of the Western Auto Lofts and its Homeowners’ Association to find a way to relight the sign prior to the start of World Cup festivities in Kansas City.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026
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