How to Use recombine in a Sentence

recombine

verb
  • In the final step of the process, the casks are all recombined.
    — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
  • When the beam bounces back, it's recombined with the second beam.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Just pulse it in a food processor or blender to recombine, then measure it out.
    — Andy Baraghani, Bon Appetit, 9 Apr. 2018
  • To serve, stir soup to recombine and season with salt and extra vinegar to taste.
    — Daniel Neman, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
  • Shake or stir the vinaigrette to recombine, then pour it over the salad and toss gently.
    — Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • While white flour is made from just the endosperm, whole-wheat flour is made by recombining the three parts after milling.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024
  • While white flour is made from just the endosperm, whole-wheat flour is made by recombining the three parts after milling.
    — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 20 July 2023
  • Wang and co say that these photons travel along symmetric paths of the same length and then recombine.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Stir the cornstarch mixture to recombine and stir it into the milk mixture.
    — Jill Warren Lucas, charlotteobserver, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Whisk soy sauce mixture to recombine, add to skillet, and cook until sauce has thickened.
    — Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Stir the cornstarch mixture to recombine, and stir it into the milk mixture.
    — Robin Currie, Philly.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Even though four people in the group are under thirty, none of you will be able to figure out how to recombine the threads.
    — Blythe Roberson, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The sensors have these Schrödinger’s cat–like states where an atom flies down separate paths and then is recombined.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Its main function is to separate and recombine the particles of the two beams.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2019
  • The beams are then recombined by further mirrors and travel to a detector.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • The beams are then recombined by further mirrors and travel to a detector.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 May 2023
  • Laser light can split the quantum wave of a BEC into two halves that move apart and recombine.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Stir the sauce to recombine, then drizzle 1 tablespoon over each cutlet.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
  • Give the cornstarch mixture a quick stir to recombine and gradually stir into the soup.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • On the other side of the membrane, the protons recombine with electrons to form pure hydrogen.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
  • Over time, tannin molecules recombine and form polymers that fall to the bottom of the bottle.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The House then voted to recombine the bills and send the final version to the Senate.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This light is split into two beams, with one beam traveling to the target and bouncing back, where it's recombined with the other beam.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Jan. 2018
  • At the partially reflective mirror, the two light beams are recombined.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2018
  • This is a war that will recombine the DNA of global politics.
    — Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2022
  • That strategy didn’t work as well as expected, and there’s been on-and-off-again efforts to recombine them in recent years.
    — Nabila Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • When these ions meet each other again and recombine, the reaction gives off energy in the form of visible light.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2017
  • Those are all but gone, ground down over eons, their remnants long since scattered and recombined into new mountains, new formations.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • To make matters more complicated, the balls cross paths and recombine at various points.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2018
  • In other words, the corpse's molecules alone couldn't just recombine to form a living organism.
    — William Herkewitz, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2016

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