How to Use afresh in a Sentence

afresh

adverb
  • The air is being cleared, and people are breathing it afresh.
    — Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But why doesn’t the bulbul just leave the nest and start afresh, rather than stay and raise someone else’s chick?
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2011
  • His original fig trees had all died, requiring him to start afresh.
    — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
  • After this catharsis, Renia felt able to move on, to start afresh.
    — Judy Batalion, Time, 8 Apr. 2021
  • This is the best time of year to get rid of the clutter, stow away small kitchen appliances, and start afresh.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
  • This lunation is an excellent moment to let go and start afresh.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 7 May 2024
  • Pearce showed me many spicebush specimens that were browsed but are now suckering afresh.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • An hours long data transfer trying patience to such an extent that many will have started afresh.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Fires particularly threaten those who lack the means to pick up their lives and start afresh elsewhere.
    — Lydia Millet, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • And it therefore couldn’t be said that new or dangerous variants weren’t landing on our shores or emerging here afresh.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • These existing sequences matched those that Li and Wang produced afresh.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2011
  • The 37-year-old left his London finance job and moved to Milan to start afresh.
    — Grace Cook, WSJ, 26 May 2023
  • After Sunday evening, the pursuit to claim to win more silverware must begin afresh.
    — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 14 July 2024
  • Teresa Cheng, Hong Kong’s justice secretary, said the process would start afresh next year.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The flower can be squared endlessly, and each variation conveys afresh the joy of invention.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • Hoi An’s quaint historic charm will appeal to digital nomads wanting to start afresh in a unique corner of the world.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2024
  • Faced with the choice of rebuilding or starting afresh, more homeowners than ever before are choosing to cut their losses.
    — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • After nuclear war decimates our planet, Earthlings pack it in and head to Mars to start afresh.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Then came the coronavirus, decimating bricks-and-mortar markets afresh.
    — WSJ, 25 Dec. 2021
  • In these films, female protagonists are shown afresh, as living in a hostile world that underestimates them again and again.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Figures at Real believe United have a unique opportunity to start afresh on the same patch of land.
    — Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
  • And the kids are starting afresh at a school dedicated to immigrants and English language learners.
    — Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Emerging competition has pushed marketing to look beyond the obvious and paved the way to learn afresh and experiment with things.
    — Neha Gianchand, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Still, using the new year to begin afresh spiritually as well as in other ways is part of becoming a better person all around, notes Fr.
    — Cathi Douglas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Whitehouse has elsewhere contended that the prior interpretation was wrong, and perhaps a court reviewing the statute afresh might agree.
    — The Editors, National Review, 15 July 2024
  • Vailea said the people of Mango Island are split, with some wanting to return and others happy to start life afresh in Nuku’alofa or elsewhere.
    — Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Vailea said the people of Mango Island are split, with some wanting to return and others happy to start life afresh in Nuku'alofa or elsewhere.
    — Nick Perry, ajc, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Even after those reviews are done and if Interior allows development, green groups will still be able to challenge the reviews and leases afresh in court.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • While firms are traditionally run as partnerships, many who are looking to start afresh are thinking more about the options available to them as a limited company.
    — Alice Stephenson, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • All of them were familiar, and yet, as performed by the chorus and the superb guest soprano Jacqueline Echols, even the most frequently sung hit home afresh.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 5 June 2022

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