How to Use recommence in a Sentence

recommence

verb
  • 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
  • The League will resume its regular season matches on Dec. 27; and team practices will recommence on Dec. 26.
    Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • More than that, Witch are looking to recommence a remarkable story of resilience and resurrection.
    Morena Duwe, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The action recommenced, with breakers staring down one another between and during moves.
    Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Also in the news: Regardless of what the Supreme Court says in a series of ongoing cases, millions of borrowers will still need to recommence student loan repayments.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On April 9, the Global Travel Taskforce issued its report advising how to recommence international travel.
    CNN, 13 Apr. 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

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