How to Use retry in a Sentence

retry

verb
Definition of retrynext
  • The judge ordered the state to retry Green or release him.
    — Angela M. Hill, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The State’s Attorney’s office plans to retry Davis for the fifth time in 2023.
    — Ashlee Banks, Essence, 23 June 2022
  • He was retried again in 2019, court records show, and sentenced to life in prison.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Smith, now 72, remains held in jail is set to be retried in June.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • But the state plans to retry him in 2023, according to a spokesman for the Suffolk DA’s office.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Outside of court, O’Brien said the government should not seek to retry his client.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2022
  • In his brief statement, Birge appeared to say his office will retry on the hung counts.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The plaintiffs can either drop their case or retry the case, according to MLive.
    — Darreonna Davis, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The Office of the State’s Attorney decided to retry Robbins on some of the charges.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The state has 120 days from the date of Tuesday’s ruling to decide whether to retry Fontenot, according to the ruling.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • The court reversed the conviction so that he could be retried in a proper venue.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 9 May 2024
  • But he was retried in 2004 and again convicted and sentenced to die.
    — Brynn Gingras, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • If the judge in Jenkins’s case overturns the verdict, the decision of whether to retry him could fall to Rollins’s office.
    — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • George Gascón said at the time that a decision had not been made about whether to retry Weinstein on those charges.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • He was retried in 2009, convicted and again sentenced to death row.
    — Bill Kerr, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Prosecutors will now have to decide whether to retry the three counts on which the jury was deadlocked.
    — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Lopes was facing two counts of first degree murder, and will be retried in court at a later date.
    — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • Mills ordered the state to retry the 37-year-old man within six months and said he must be released from custody if he is not retried by then.
    — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • George Gascón said a decision has not been made about whether to retry Weinstein on the charges over which the jury deadlocked.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In September, a federal court vacated the life sentence and agreed to retry the case.
    — Fox News, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Phinn ordered Syed’s release from prison and gave prosecutors 30 days to decide whether to retry him or drop the charges.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Prosecutors then dismissed the charge rather than retry it.
    — Tom Jackman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In some years, the group’s priority legislation would fail and need to be retried in the next months and sometimes years.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 13 May 2024
  • Young appeared in court Tuesday and asked prosecutors to retry her case.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Palumbo ruled Tuesday that the case will be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the case cannot be retried.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The case now returns to the lower courts, where prosecutors could decide to retry the case under the new standards set by the Supreme Court’s decision.
    — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2023
  • Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn also gave prosecutors 30 days in which to decide whether to retry Syed or drop the charges.
    — Brian Witte, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The government is likely to retry the case, according to Gillum's attorneys.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 4 May 2023
  • The brothers were retried and found guilty in 1996 after a first trial ended with jurors deadlocked.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • Mosby’s office vowed to retry Davis after the latest verdict was overturned last year.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2022

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