How to Use retread in a Sentence

retread

1 of 2 verb

• This Star Fox retread looks pretty good and is worth your time.
  — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026
• But both songs retread ground Grande already covered.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2026
• The bias ply is easier to retread while the radial is lighter.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2017
• Those games are infinitely re-playable, so there’s no need to retread with a sequel.
  — Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2025
• Boots, to its credit, doesn’t retread the coming-out tropes of mass-market gay media.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
• In the commercial tire market, retreaded tires account for half of all truck tires.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 19 June 2018
• Many genres of music have begun to retread past sounds and aesthetics.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
• But Miller’s film does a lot more than just retread familiar history.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 17 July 2019
• What follows hews closer to his first It movie and therefore feels like a slightly less inspired retread.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2025
• Nor did retread Jon Singleton prove much help at the position.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
• All of the slide structures will be repainted and the staircases retreaded.
  — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025
• There’s no time wasted when productions choose to film in Illinois, and no need to retread the same locations.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
• Philly had hosted Bridges for a private workout and retreaded Smith for two group workouts.
  — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 23 June 2018
• What’s left for her is to tread and retread this path, from Mexico to Texas to California and back.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2026
• When dusk approaches in Montana, the searchers start packing up, but Kimberly retreads ground along the creek.
  — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, 10 June 2019
• And don’t worry about the movie retreading the same ground Johnny Depp besmirched — the film is rumored to be a prequel of some kind.
  — Ben Meyerson, RedEye Chicago, 15 June 2018
• Black Rabbit frequently retreads territory in this way from better shows and movies.
  — Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
• Bruce Miller has no interest in retreading old The Handmaid’s Tale ground.
  — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026
• But what is the Democrats’ plan other than to retread old policy and attack Republicans?
  — Evan Thies, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
• This column has already delved into the diabolical doll dance moves that the film’s trailer inspired, and there’s no need to retread that angle here.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2022
• But in the meantime, Williams is treading water — and retreading the same talking points that have defined the last three years of his development.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
• After last year’s delightful leap forward, the show now appears to be stuck in limbo, hitting a reset button in its first two episodes and then investing in new plots that retread old ground.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• In the day, those operating theatres were usually retread old cinema buildings that had outlived their commercial life.
  — Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 12 Jan. 2025
• When GroakDontCroak retreads this territory, the impact is much heavier.
  — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 27 Apr. 2026
• Dylan Faden is revealed to be more of a melee fighter, which means Remedy is once again going down a different path with a new project instead of retreading old ground.
  — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 12 Dec. 2025
• Hjorth and her protagonists know that retreading this territory can feel claustrophobic.
  — Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
• But much of the evidence also retreaded or expanded on ground covered last summer when the first preliminary hearing was held for 18 members.
  — Susan Snyder, Philly.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Furthermore, many arguments for repealing the $600 boost retread the old stereotype of a jobless worker on the government dole.
  — CNN, 8 July 2020
• Its script has a surprising amount of heart, progressing the stories of these beloved characters rather than simply retreading old ground for those who grew up with the prior installment (and might now be watching with their own children).
  — EW.com, 29 Apr. 2025
• Every character from the box-office-dominating Disney classic has returned to retread every plot point and sing every familiar, chart-topping song.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 July 2019

retread

2 of 2 noun

• The show is just another TV sitcom retread.
• Only the retreads and the riff-raff and the hard-core dopies are out now.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• Just ridiculous signing all of these retreads off the trash heap.
  — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• As with most revivals, the retread had nowhere near the punch of the original.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
• Don’t call them retreads, these are vital in-your-face live performances.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• Viewers will hope for more originals this fall, but next season will be heavy on retreads.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 June 2017
• Yes, there are some retreads and some has-beens in the starting line-up, but there are some amazing prospects down on the farm.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 21 June 2017
• Her love of soul music is more than just a retread of contemporary throwback trends.
  — chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• Though that premise may sound familiar, this is no retread of wholesome Hallmark fare.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• The less devoted might find the meta-comedy a tired retread, prompting more eyerolls than laughs.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• Call it a dressed up retread of the last GOP health care plan, or simply a wolf in sheep's clothing.
  — Russell Blair, courant.com, 30 June 2017
• The Browns passed on the QB class, deciding to ride out the season with a retread.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 1 May 2018
• Since then, Swift has rolled these passion-project retreads into their own backtracking pop culture events.
  — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 7 July 2023
• What started as a thought toward just painting and rearranging evolved into more of a retread.
  — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 30 Nov. 2025
• This is a retread of her last Update appearance, which is a bit disappointing.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• But anyone who assumed Monday’s show would be a stale retread, or tired rehash, was mistaken.
  — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 24 Nov. 2022
• Most of the videos are gentle teasing about the idiosyncrasies of working at a bar or retreads of other viral videos.
  — Lauren Chapman, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026
• What Watts has done here is more captivating than another retread about the persistence of a crook’s dream.
  — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2017
• Much of Shadowkeep's storyline is a retread of familiar locales and foes.
  — Wired, 3 Oct. 2019
• The Braves don’t plan to rely on retreads much longer, but the ability to scrounge should never be underrated.
  — Mark Bradley, ajc, 26 June 2017
• The attendees were in store for a retread of stump speeches—abbreviated to five minutes—that many of them had seen a handful of times at town halls.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
• As superhero films, reboots and spinoffs get creaky, moviegoers are looking for stories that don’t feel like retreads or rehashes.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 June 2026
• Last year’s winners were 90 percent retreads from the previous Emmy Awards.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
• And while many of those options are just carried over from the last game, the eventual introduction of a new spear weapon midway through the game helps the system to not feel like a mere retread.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
• Of the many names bandied about in the past week for these six openings – and there are multiple candidates for each of them – there seemingly aren’t many retreads being targeted.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2018
• Or, maybe pro sports tend to turn into coaching carousels of retreads, and the Bucks were just ready, after seeing potential in Griffin, to start fresh.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
• Similarly, Devon isn't a retread of other plucky Jedi leads.
  — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• There’s a kid named Podcast who has a podcast, and the little dude’s not even close to being the most unimaginative aspect of this frustrating retread.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
• But after a slow start, The Way of Water manages to repeat that formula without being a tired retread.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2022
• The lowest moments on Paradise felt like a retread of Born to Die, with the same musical elements shuffled around.
  — Richard S. He, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019