How to Use rerun in a Sentence

rerun

1 of 2 verb
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  • They reran the race, but the result was the same.
  • He reran the software on my computer.
  • Last week's show is being rerun tomorrow night.
  • Texas could rerun the game tape and play what-if for hours.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2021
  • So, the researchers reran the meta-analyses using three of these tools.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2019
  • They were forced to rerun the race, and this time Panek clipped a hurdle and finished eighth.
    — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The three-hour broadcast will also rerun from 1 to 4 p.m. (2 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET).
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 25 Nov. 2021
  • When the race was rerun, the leaders went through the mile mark in 5:19, and Nicole and Samantha were first and second on the sixth lap.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 13 May 2023
  • Over the course of five or six weeks Bintliff will siphon off excess liquid and rerun the mud through the strainer.
    — Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The special begins at 8 p.m. ET and will rerun at 10 p.m. ET.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
  • It was also not removed when the telecast was rerun late at night.
    — David Bauder, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • If the eyes are the window to the soul, our under eyes are an indication of last night's 12-hour Friends rerun marathon.
    — Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 26 Jan. 2024
  • When Sheppard reran the data, the images confirmed that 20 dots of light traced out orbits around Saturn.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The hearing test can be assigned a custom name and can be rerun and saved whenever the user likes.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • On one recent Zoom meeting, Mr. Kaardal spoke about plans to try to force the entire governor’s race to be rerun.
    — Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The state monitors lab reports and can have tests rerun if something seems amiss.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The director has been watching Efrem Zimbalist Jr. reruns while much of the country reads the Durham ...
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 31 May 2023
  • In 2020, Flynn and Powell tried, and failed, to get Trump to order the military to rerun the election after Biden won.
    — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Unfortunately, there's been a lot of need to rerun it since then.
    — Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
  • The accountants plan to rerun those once tax software is updated to reflect the new rule.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The same episode on a broadcast network could pay up to $3,600 for each rerun, with the potential for multiple reruns in a year.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Soldiers, like Colonel Buccino, soon tired of rerunning the same old script.
    — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
  • That would save Germany the trouble of having to rerun its September vote.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
  • All of the original tests were rerun Sunday night and each of them came back negative for coronavirus.
    — oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Neither the FBI nor Decker’s ability to rerun the entire scene in his mind provides any answers.
    — Jeff Ayers, Orange County Register, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Residual fees — or money paid when a film or series is rerun or aired on broadcast — has helped pad the wallets of writers for years.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Flynn, who had said on Newsmax the previous day that Trump could order the military to rerun the election in key swing states, was on hand to discuss his idea.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Since 2019, Trump’s account has been used to broadcast live campaign rallies and rerun older rallies, Twitch said.
    — Danielle Abril, Fortune, 29 June 2020
  • The show has been rerun in syndication in various forms since, and has been available for streaming on Netflix since 2020.
    — Andrew Dalton, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Flynn suggested in the aftermath of the 2020 election that Trump could seize voting machines and order the military in some states to help rerun the election.
    — Gary Fields, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2023
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rerun

2 of 2 noun
  • She spent her vacation watching summer reruns.
  • This week’s big event was a rerun of last week’s big event.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • In the 1990s the show, by now a cult classic, aired in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel.
    — Carmel Dagan, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Do Democrats want a rerun of the Omicron nightmare on the eve of the election?
    — David Faris, The Week, 29 Mar. 2022
  • None of us want a rerun of last year’s horrors with Covid-19.
    — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Summer was for reruns, and trips to the theater for blockbusters.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 14 July 2023
  • Why hang onto soap opera reruns for more than three decades?
    — Dan Hernandez, Longreads, 28 Feb. 2023
  • These days, the cast of Friends earns $20 million a year off of rerun residuals.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 28 July 2022
  • Odinga challenged the results in the country’s Supreme Court, and the judges ordered a rerun.
    — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
  • In the meantime, fans can also watch old-school rerun episodes on Pluto.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2022
  • This is a rerun of the scenario that played out in late September as the Writers Guild of America came to the end of its 148-day strike.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But in later years, seen in reruns and on home video, it was hailed as a forgotten classic.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Also nowadays, and for the last 20 years, my shows have been rerun on Univision.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The latest anti-logging movement can seem like watching a rerun of the same old movie.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • But the scheme had to be hurriedly abandoned when Rubio dropped out of the race for the White House and announced a rerun for his Senate seat.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • Lear received four Emmys and a Peabody for the series, which reached younger viewers over the years through cable reruns.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Democrats hope, instead, to make the election a choice between Biden and Trump — a rerun of the 2020 contest that Biden won handily.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022
  • This is not a rerun of hollowing out experienced in many U.S. cities in the 1960s.
    — Mark Davidson, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Another late change made to the charter school bill, SB 1026, led to a rerun of the transgender fight on Friday.
    — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Last week, picket lines formed in Los Angeles and New York; late-night talk shows went dark and their slots have since been filled with reruns.
    — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • The beloved late-night sketch comedy show plans to air reruns for the time being since sketches are written during the week of each episode.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 2 May 2023
  • The result was consistent with a broader trend in rerun elections, more than half of which unions have lost since 2010.
    — Noam Scheiber, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But some big movies planned for Christmas have been pushed to next year, and the fall TV schedule will be heavy on reality shows and reruns.
    — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Fans can expect to see standout season 5 rerun performances throughout the hour with a few new clues thrown in the mix.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2021
  • But the game turned into a virtual rerun of Thursday’s 11-9 loss, a game in which the Sox also blew an early four-run lead.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2022
  • This will be rerun later in the evening and again when Swensen’s team releases more results Thursday.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The same episode on a broadcast network could pay up to $3,600 for each rerun, with the potential for multiple reruns in a year.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Others that do have been airing reruns during the work stoppages.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2023
  • That paints a troubled picture for Democrats heading into a potential rerun of the 2020 matchup.
    — Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That such a show was received as funny and inoffensive is hard to imagine now, but in my childhood its reruns were continuous.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024

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