How to Use restart in a Sentence

restart

verb
  • They plan to restart negotiations next week.
  • The tournament will restart tomorrow.
  • Now, that process will restart.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The war could still restart if those were to break down.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 26 May 2026
  • Someone restart the hard drive on this year.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • All users need to download and restart right away.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The fire stopped for a time, but then restarted.
    — CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Wait for the modem to restart, then plug in the router.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The top of the new year is the perfect time to restart a good habit.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Some of us learn from it; some of us restart the cycle again (and again).
    — Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 30 Apr. 2025
  • If two aren’t moving, kill or restart the pilot.
    — Curt Steinhorst, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • After the war ends, the oil supply chain needs time to restart.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But there's still a whole summer break to go until schools restart.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 4 June 2021
  • Investors bet on peace talks restarting soon.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Now, restart the console one last time, and the issue should be fixed.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 12 June 2025
  • How to restart your router There are three main ways to reboot your router.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The race restarted again with one lap to go, and Malukas surged to the lead.
    — Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 24 May 2026
  • Rich people were able to leave, but the poor did not have the funds to restart elsewhere.
    — Jeremy Ney, Time, 21 May 2025
  • Her plan to restart her company in a few years went out the window.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
  • Six weeks to restart your fitness and level up your core training.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The system does not need to restart each time conditions change.
    — Marjorie Parker, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • It is not known how long the guests were stranded before the ride restarted.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • If this is the problem, bringing your weight up should restart your cycles.
    — Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 25 July 2024
  • The followers stayed, while the feed was wiped clean and restarted.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Both sides have insisted that the other needs to make the first move to restart talks.
    — John Koblin, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • The city plans to restart the city’s junior lifeguard program.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The circuitry kind of stopped and restarted again, and maybe some things got lost.
    — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • People were trying to restart lives, and now again, they've been displaced.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Wells shut in for commercial reasons can restart.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The race restarted on Lap 68 with 10 laps to go.
    — Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 7 June 2026

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