How to Use recommence in a Sentence

recommence

verb
  • And Lake recommenced the war on the Voice of America.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The tour, which began last year with support from Ludacris, will recommence in Hawaii in March.
    — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This temporary agreement means that the two sides will need to continue their talks over the next three months to stave off recommencing their global trade war.
    — Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • The action recommenced, with breakers staring down one another between and during moves.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • With remarkable deftness, the wheels have been set in motion to recommence this most ancient form of female subjugation.
    — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • The port gave an update that haulage and rail operations have since recommenced, with the port working up to full capacity as soon as possible.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • More than that, Witch are looking to recommence a remarkable story of resilience and resurrection.
    — Morena Duwe, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Ultimately, your baby recommencing breastfeeding may just be a matter of time and patience.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 6 Aug. 2024
  • As the play recommences, the space between performers and spectators is naturally, potently blurred.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024
  • After the ground stop was lifted, Mongello said the pilot announced over the PA system at the gate that boarding would recommence.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Slot and his staff have a break to reset and rethink before Liverpool’s league campaign recommences against Everton on April 2.
    — Gregg Evans, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Exposure to sunlight essentially neutralizes this signal, but once these minerals became buried under thousands of feet of ice, the sun’s rays could no longer reach them, and the electron buildup recommenced.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • The recovery has since been interrupted by additional waves of contagion, keeping millions of workers sidelined and causing job losses to recommence.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Direct flights to the islands from international destinations will recommence July 1, and testing will be random from that point onwards.
    — Julia Buckley, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2020
  • As the saga recommences, Wick has declared war on the High Table, which is not a club for standing-desk enthusiasts but rather an elite, all-powerful assassins’ council.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Athletic events, some of which were postponed or canceled due to the shooting, are scheduled to resume this weekend and classes will recommence Monday, university officials announced.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • By Gaskin’s logic, the prepper shows will simply return to the conservative regions and their stockpiling will recommence for the hellscape of a Joe Biden presidency.
    — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • But the story of Portugal’s unfolding summer turns out to be a tale of the pandemic’s stubborn endurance and the volatile nature of expectation as the virus undercuts plans to recommence ordinary life.
    — Peter S. Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
  • Filed on the final day of March, Nancy Leprino’s lawsuit recommences a family feud that dates back a dozen years and reopens a window into the deeply private family company.
    — Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
  • International cruising is now able to recommence in the UK, but Le Teace says she's been enjoying experiencing local waters.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Municipal court services have since reopened, resuming administrative hearings and community court hearings, but trials and jury duty will recommence at a later date per a city announcement.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
  • Israel’s Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Wednesday that it had been notified that teams had recommenced searching for Ran Gvili.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • When the 90-day enforcement pause ends, the attorney general should recommence vigorous enforcement of the FCPA.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • On April 9, the Global Travel Taskforce issued its report advising how to recommence international travel.
    — CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
  • After this provision was ended in March 2023, eligibility checks recommenced, and millions of Americans were pushed out of their pandemic-era coverage.
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Economic activities throughout Israel should recommence immediately and should gradually return to their customary levels.
    — Amos Yadlin, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
  • What To Know The Malaysian Transport Ministry has confirmed that the deep-sea search for MH370 will recommence on December 30.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • More assassinations accompanied the emergence of the tribunal; within one week of the government’s approval of the tribunal protocol in November 2006, Lebanon’s series of political murders recommenced after a year’s lull.
    — William Harris, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2011

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