How to Use reinstitute in a Sentence

reinstitute

verb
  • Now, got a measure on the ballot to reinstitute the camping ban.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Last week, Mamdani announced a plan to reinstitute these sweeps.
    — Deborah Berkman, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There have been no discussions about reinstituting a draft.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The company has no plans to reinstitute a customer mask mandate.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022
  • But a new judge who recently took over the fraud case could soon reinstitute the special prosecutors' pay.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Housing groups throughout the state are calling on the court to reinstitute the order as many renters struggle to catch up on their payments.
    — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Democrats can, of course, rectify this huge mistake and reinstitute the proper threshold.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The judge didn't grant the student-athletes' request to force the school to reinstitute the swimming and diving programs.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The Supreme Court is expected to decide whether to reinstitute his death sentence.
    — John Eligon, New York Times, 4 May 2021
  • The law reinstituted wear-and-tear expenses as being tax-deductible, increasing the amount of the write-off.
    — Tobias Burns, The Hill, 31 July 2025
  • Local leaders in the country have begun to reinstitute lockdowns.
    — Alex Mann, baltimoresun.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The legislative push comes in response to a recent push by a Maryland school district to reinstitute mask mandates.
    — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The results gave the company enough confidence, officials said, to reinstitute guidance for the rest of the year.
    — Patrick Kennedy, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • Biden will reinstitute the emphasis on the two-state outcome as an endgame, but don’t expect a major push for peace from his White House.
    — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • And so did the calls to reinstitute Adams-era policies to remove homeless encampments to entice the people who live in them to move inside.
    — Deborah Berkman, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That led to some cities, including Washington, to reinstitute mask mandates.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2021
  • In Kansas City, fares will be reinstituted starting in June after being free for six years.
    — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Last week, Russia broke off the safe-shipping agreement, reinstituted a blockade and began nightly strikes.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
  • The rise of the delta variant and resurgence in hospitalizations across parts of the country led several states to reinstitute mask mandates.
    — Olivia Solon, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Yet, many top schools have reinstituted their testing requirements in recent years—and students have shifted course accordingly.
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Then on Thursday, crews discovered more flames in a different section of the building, prompting them to reinstitute a shelter-in-place order.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • Later, once the military efforts ceased or moved on, the local tribes reportedly sought to reinstitute the airdrops but didn’t seemingly understand how to do so.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • The restoration reinstitutes the original ending of the film unseen by audiences since the 1940s.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • Those districts that will be doing blind, group testing of K-5 classrooms had better be ready to reinstitute virtual schooling for two weeks at a time when the positives start rolling in.
    — C.j. Doon, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Last month, Philadelphia lifted an indoor mask mandate not long after becoming the first major city to reinstitute such a policy.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 16 May 2022
  • The John Lewis act would reinstitute the federal preclearance requirement for changing election laws.
    — New York Times, 7 May 2021
  • Bookstores started reinstituting the horror shelf.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The strain on hospitals in Colorado forced a second county to reinstitute an indoor mask mandate last week, the Denver Post reported.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Project 2025 called for the next Republican president to reissue or reinstitute that order.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The report went so far as to suggest that budget reductions could require reinstituting the draft to make up for troops who would leave the service if their benefits were cut or their deployments were accelerated.
    — David W. Barno, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2011

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