How to Use retry in a Sentence

retry

1 of 2 verb
  • He could be retried by the state.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • Let’s see this case retried under the justices’ new rules.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Flores is scheduled to be retried next month.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Players can retry it multiple times to max out combos and achieve high scores.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Smith, now 72, remains held in jail is set to be retried in June.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • In his brief statement, Birge appeared to say his office will retry on the hung counts.
    — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Prosecutors plan to retry the case.
    — Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The court reversed the conviction so that he could be retried in a proper venue.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 9 May 2024
  • He was retried again in 2019, court records show, and sentenced to life in prison.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Harris was no longer seen as a murderer, and the state decided not to retry him.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2026
  • Lopes was facing two counts of first degree murder, and will be retried in court at a later date.
    — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • She could be retried if the conviction is overturned and she is released from prison.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The judge dismissed the charges with prejudice, meaning that the case cannot be retried.
    — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Bill Essayli quickly announced that his office would retry the case.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Outside of court, O’Brien said the government should not seek to retry his client.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2022
  • Weinstein will again be in court on April 14, when he will be retried for rape.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Irvin survived but was retried and convicted.
    — News Service Of Florida, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Prosecutors will now have to decide whether to retry the three counts on which the jury was deadlocked.
    — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • His lawyers had asked earlier this week for a date to be set for his release if prosecutors don’t retry him.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • At his sentencing, Johnson asked to be retried.
    — Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The plaintiffs can either drop their case or retry the case, according to MLive.
    — Darreonna Davis, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Young appeared in court Tuesday and asked prosecutors to retry her case.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But he was retried in 2004 and again convicted and sentenced to die.
    — Brynn Gingras, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • He was retried in 2009, convicted and again sentenced to death row.
    — Bill Kerr, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • George Gascón said at the time that a decision had not been made about whether to retry Weinstein on those charges.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Galatolo will next appear in court March 6, when it will be decided whether to retry the hung counts.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Bill Essayli said on the social media platform X that his office would retry the case.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Mosby’s office vowed to retry Davis after the latest verdict was overturned last year.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2022
  • Jones is being retried after his first trial ended in a mistrial.
    — Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 7 May 2026
  • Russell is scheduled to be retried in February and faces up to life in prison if convicted.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025

retry

2 of 2 noun
  • Those risks can multiply when the messages are sent without both validation and retry logic.
    — Jiazhen Zhu, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Denver is 3-2 and could easily be 5-0 — its two losses came from walk-off field goals, and one of those kicks was a retry after a rare leverage penalty.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Penn State was called offsides on the play, but running back Kerry Goode was stopped short on a retry from the 2 and Alabama lost.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Returnal won't go easy on you, but anyone with the stomach for frantic die-and-retry combat should expect a once-in-a-lifetime experience out of Housemarque's best game ever.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The information on the devices included the child’s name, gender and date of birth, mother’s name, caregiver’s name, and the hearing-screening results, which were pass, fail, retry or incomplete.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 7 Apr. 2022
  • For example, when a task failed mid-action, such as picking up an object unsuccessfully, the system could recognize the failure and retry without prior training on that specific scenario.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Dan Bailey's first extra-point attempt was blocked, but an offsides penalty resulted in a retry, which Bailey hit to give the Vikings the decisive 28-27 margin.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020

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