How to Use respawn in a Sentence

respawn

noun
  • The season respawns, with neither bang nor whimper but a three-cone drill.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • They are allowed two losses before the run ends, with respawn tokens available in the rewards track.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Blair theorizes that the only way to avoid the futility of destroying boxes that respawn is to attack the original one.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Musk avatar also, in a pair of first-person-shooter sequences, moves through the world as a vintage video game character, complete with health bars and lives left and colorful respawns.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, and Keegan-Michael Key respawn in their roles from the first movie.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 31 Dec. 2025

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