How to Use reopen in a Sentence

reopen

verb

• The cut on his knee reopened when he tried to run.
• He wants the team to reopen his contract.
• The restaurant will reopen in April.
• The district attorney reopened the murder case because new evidence was found.
• I'm sorry, but the store is closed. We reopen at nine on Monday.
• The company announced plans to reopen its Detroit factory.
• All roads in the area of the fire have also been reopened.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
• All dirt roads are closed and will reopen when cleared.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• The state Supreme Court then cleared the way for the death chamber to reopen this summer.
  — CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
• The deputy opens and closes the door, and at one point reopens the door and the boy is dragged out of the back seat and pinned facedown on the ground.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
• The bridge reopened at around 12:15 p.m., the highway patrol said.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024
• The two others, Paul’s Slide and Dolan Point, have been repaired and reopened.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• The zone around the United Center kicks in at 7 p.m. the next day, with streets in the area expected to reopen Aug. 23.
  — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2024
• The lanes were closed after the crash but reopened late that evening, per New Jersey News 12.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024
• The restaurant closed during the start of the pandemic, and then only the drive-through reopened.
  — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The course wasn’t reopened in the 2022 season to allow the grounds to recover from the flooding the year prior.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2023
• At the back of the restaurant on reopening day Guachiac brushed a buttery wash over trays of flaky, fresh-from-the-oven pastelitos.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• In the late afternoon, teenagers stream out of a high school, which has reopened after the Lunar New Year break.
  — Eric Cheung, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
• Entry doors will reopen and passengers will have a chance to remove the item and step back in.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2023
• The line was repaired by early evening and the businesses had reopened, Swift said.
  — Adam Sennott, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• The agency expected the roadway to reopen around 3 p.m.
  — Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• The location at 1150 Main St. is slated to reopen in late fall under the name Nice Life.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 31 July 2024
• Notre Dame is expected to reopen on Dec. 8 for the first time since the blaze, which also damaged its roof and some of its vaults.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• It was not reopened with a new jury out of concern for Higgins’s health.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
• Schools reopened on Monday after a delay of about a month.
  — Jeffrey Moyo, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• The border would reopen to migrants two weeks after that.
  — Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times, 4 June 2024
• All lanes of eastbound I-70 were closed at Manchester for about three hours and have since reopened.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2024
• The westbound lane reopened just over four hours later, while the eastbound lane took about five hours to reopen.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
• The case stayed cold for decades, until advancements of DNA testing prompted investigators to reopen the case.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
• The highway has since reopened, Louisville Metro Emergency Services officials said on social media.
  — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024