How to Use reread in a Sentence

reread

verb
  • Try to pick up a new book, reread an old favorite or maybe even write your own.
    Ryleigh McCoy |contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2021
  • And if that doesn’t work, reread the first line of my answer, Gordon.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Set your timer for two minutes, and reread your notes from Session 2.
    Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Sanders read and reread the rule book and took the same weekly rules test as the league’s officials.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • His goal was to reread a guest’s entire body of work before an interview.
    Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
  • For the next few years, Almqvist read and reread Cassel’s journals.
    Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Visit first and then reread the classics that were created there.
    Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025
  • And if that sounds like whining, please reread the preceding paragraph.
    Elizabeth Warren, Fortune, 24 May 2021
  • No matter which March sister has your heart, this book is always worth rereading.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • When the burqa woman left at 6 pm, Cliff stepped over to the painting again and reread the placard.
    Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • As Lockwood was rereading her way through Plath’s work, some inner door had opened.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • For her part, Anna sleepwalked through her classes, rereading all his texts.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The trappings of romance are fantasy — but the emotion that leads people to reread a book?
    Eloisa James, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
  • They are meant for the masses and often intended to be read, and reread, in difficult times.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • There are few fiction writers whose works bear rereading and formal analysis so well.
    Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • After, take a minute to reread and celebrate all that happened over the last 365 days.
    Christopher Littlefield, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Some card descriptions are a bit wordy, forcing pauses to reread during your first attempts.
    Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
  • His teammate, senior Jaylen Jasper, received Lui’s email and reread it a few times.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Neither of them can figure it out, only Ashley is first to reread her instructions.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 28 Sep. 2025
  • If your eyes aren’t wide open to the damage being done in this country, reread the March 2 Tribune.
    Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The relatives sat calmly for the most part in the courtroom gallery as the court clerk read, and reread the 17-page verdict form.
    Hartford Courant, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This way, your text with a massive group of friends won’t require you to reread a conversation hours later to see if you were mentioned.
    Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 9 July 2020
  • Mace equivocated, saying Collins would need to reread the quotes to her, which the journalist did.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Several recent favorites—which is to say, reread fewer than five times—have come out of these conversations.
    Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Please reread the Constitution and brush up on the section about co-equal branches of government.
    Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Seeing a play in a different production isn’t like rereading a book or seeing a film on a larger or smaller screen.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
  • In her memoir, Chihaya rereads the stories that shaped her, in an effort to trace the roots of her breakdown and chart a new path forward.
    Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Maybe rereading children’s books is not really about returning to childhood.
    Rafaela Jinich, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
  • Wyoming hunter Meg Stanton had to reread her mule deer’s chronic wasting disease results a couple times.
    Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 24 July 2024
  • Nobody seemed to mind especially—many were plunked down on the floor, contentedly rereading her books, as an hour passed, then an hour and a half.
    Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2024

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