How to Use retread in a Sentence

retread

noun

• The show is just another TV sitcom retread.
• Only the retreads and the riff-raff and the hard-core dopies are out now.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• The Browns passed on the QB class, deciding to ride out the season with a retread.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 1 May 2018
• Call it a dressed up retread of the last GOP health care plan, or simply a wolf in sheep's clothing.
  — Russell Blair, courant.com, 30 June 2017
• Sign up The idea is a retread at the federal level as well.
  — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 11 June 2023
• Yes, there are some retreads and some has-beens in the starting line-up, but there are some amazing prospects down on the farm.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 21 June 2017
• The Senate sequel to the House bill process is playing out like the most disciplined scene-by-scene retread since Home Alone 2.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 22 June 2017
• Don’t call them retreads, these are vital in-your-face live performances.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• Viewers will hope for more originals this fall, but next season will be heavy on retreads.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 June 2017
• Instead, although the film's well-made — with snazzy period clothing and a vivid urban backdrop for the chases and fights — the plot's a retread.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Though that premise may sound familiar, this is no retread of wholesome Hallmark fare.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• Her love of soul music is more than just a retread of contemporary throwback trends.
  — chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• The Braves don’t plan to rely on retreads much longer, but the ability to scrounge should never be underrated.
  — Mark Bradley, ajc, 26 June 2017
• The less devoted might find the meta-comedy a tired retread, prompting more eyerolls than laughs.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• Or, maybe pro sports tend to turn into coaching carousels of retreads, and the Bucks were just ready, after seeing potential in Griffin, to start fresh.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
• In a time of distress and isolation, when meals had become a retread of the old and familiar, that touch of heat was a small salvation: a flicker in the pulse, a smack of the jaw, a call back to life.
  — Ligaya Mishan Patricia Heal Leilin Lopez-Toledo, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The second and third seasons proved the point – each successive round was a retread of the first, the plot running on a treadmill, with more fake-out deaths and lots of yelling from Jim Hopper (David Harbour).
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• The lowest moments on Paradise felt like a retread of Born to Die, with the same musical elements shuffled around.
  — Richard S. He, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019
• And while many of those options are just carried over from the last game, the eventual introduction of a new spear weapon midway through the game helps the system to not feel like a mere retread.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
• The attendees were in store for a retread of stump speeches—abbreviated to five minutes—that many of them had seen a handful of times at town halls.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
• What Watts has done here is more captivating than another retread about the persistence of a crook’s dream.
  — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2017
• Strapped for ideas, the federation hired retread Bruce Arena.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2019
• But after a slow start, The Way of Water manages to repeat that formula without being a tired retread.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2022
• This is a retread of her last Update appearance, which is a bit disappointing.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• Since then, Swift has rolled these passion-project retreads into their own backtracking pop culture events.
  — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 7 July 2023
• The 2020 Democrats are a party of kooks and retreads and charlatans, now reduced to hoping for a pandemic of the coronavirus to give them any room to attack the incumbent.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• There’s a kid named Podcast who has a podcast, and the little dude’s not even close to being the most unimaginative aspect of this frustrating retread.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
• Foles was the quintessential NFL retread, bouncing around three teams in his first five years, never able to establish himself as a bona fide starter.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
• The success of the retreads has also had a halo effect for Nokia smartphones, largely by reminding people that the Nokia brand, well, still exists.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
• Much of Shadowkeep's storyline is a retread of familiar locales and foes.
  — Wired, 3 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024