How to Use repost in a Sentence

repost

verb
  • The band took to Instagram to repost the full video Lizzo shared of the cover on their story.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes her posts were censored; sometimes a friend helped to repost them and get them out.
    James Mann, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • The only way around that restriction is to delete the earlier post and then repost it.
    Derek Willis, ProPublica, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Users can repost, reply to or quote a thread, for example, and can see the number of likes and replies that a post has received.
    Wyatte Grantham-Phillip, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
  • Plyusnina asked people to repost her video to help bring her son home.
    Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 18 July 2022
  • The star took to Instagram on Monday (Feb. 7) to repost a video of herself working out in the gym in a bright yellow sports bra and black shorts.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2022
  • On Threads, people can post text and links and reply to or repost messages from others.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
  • While Zegler deleted the video, people were quick to repost the reading on Twitter.
    Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In the past, aides would often just repost his messages on Twitter to Facebook, these people said.
    Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Other users attempted to download and repost the video faster than censors could take down new posts.
    Grady McGregor, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Threads have a 500-character limit and users can reply to, repost and quote other Threads posts.
    Tiffany Acosta arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2023
  • And though the point isn’t for BeReal photos to be charming enough to repost on Instagram, people do that too.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Your goal is to persuade your audience to engage and repost your content.
    Rebecca Kowalewicz, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Similar to Twitter, users can reply to, repost and quote others’ Threads posts.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • All easy and emotionally triggering sound bites to repost or play over and over on news programs.
    Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The app’s Duet and Stitch features, which allow users to repost and respond to another person’s video, will be disabled for videos posed by users under 16.
    Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2021
  • By lunchtime on March 13, O'Meara began hearing from friends, asking for permission to repost.
    Nora Krug, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Don’t just repost, because the spread of misinformation is becoming a huge problem and can do more harm than good.
    ELLE, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Parler has a feature that lets users repost any other user's post on their own feed through a feature called echo, much like Twitter's retweet function.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 29 June 2020
  • Please repost to bring awareness as our young black creators are often overlooked or not acknowledged for their talents.
    Sonia Ramirez, Chron, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The news was confirmed after Demi decided to repost the video on her own Instagram stories with some side eye emojis.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The Post's decision to edit and repost the Millian stories is highly unusual in the news industry.
    Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The ruling will expose anyone who would publish or repost Nasha Niva materials to prison terms of up to seven years.
    Yuras Karmanau, ajc, 23 Nov. 2021
  • But since the start of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s second term in 2017, more and more celebrities have used their accounts to repost official state messages.
    Dan Chen, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The model reposts a series of birthday shout-outs from friends on her Instagram Story, including one from Idris, and the two are later photographed leaving her party hand in hand.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Our analysis found that younger celebrities with more followers tend to repost official messages more.
    Dan Chen, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
  • On Instagram especially, that allows the music act to repost, say, an Instagram story and use it as content for their own account.
    Omar L. Gallaga, WIRED, 1 July 2023
  • Threads has a similar appearance to Twitter, allowing users to post messages, as well as like, reply to and repost other people's messages.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • Please copy, save, share, and repost this information with other like-minded people and even with gun owners of good conscience who recognize the need for rational controls.
    Amanda Morris, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • To be entered for a bonus entry, participants can repost on their story for an additional five entries.
    Audrey Eads, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2021

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