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How to use afresh in a sentence

12 example sentences · adverb

Afresh means anew; again; once more. Example: “We ditched the original design and decided to start afresh.”

Examples of afresh by meaning

adverbAnew; again; once more.

  • We ditched the original design and decided to start afresh.

More sentences with afresh

  • That was a debacle. We'll start afresh.From the entry start afresh
  • Julia Child helped one of the world's richer and more puritanical nations to view its menu afresh.2006, Geoffrey Blainey, A Short History of the 20th Century, Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 254. From the entry K'un-ming
  • Reed read the label and gazed afresh on to the plain of dust.1969, Clive Barry, Fly Jamskoni, London: Faber and Faber […], →ISBN, page 54. From the entry skerrick
  • Italy, likewise starting afresh after Fascism and defeat, has created a brilliant neo-realism.1957 March, Friedrich Luft, “The Postwar Film”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025. From the entry neorealism
  • And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.2010, Leslie Ludy, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace, Harvest House Publishers, published 2010…. From the entry fleeting
  • Each sinusy gasp of Enid’s seemed to pierce his ear the instant he was poised afresh to drop off.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry sinusy
  • We knocked off work a few days ago, and we're just waiting to see when things are to start afresh.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden…. From the entry knock off
  • Here it encountered afresh felled trees like endless bundles of jackstraws, thrown vigorously, crossed under water at every imaginable angle.1912, Mary Johnston, chapter 5, in Cease Firing. From the entry jackstraw
  • We cannot tell if we're facing "nonsense" words that she's coining afresh or obsolete, Old English antiquarianisms from before the standardization of spelling.Jeffrey Jullich, Review of Bed Hangings by Susan Howe, Electronic Poetry Review #2. Retrieved on October 30, 2006. From the entry antiquarianism
  • Some say it is an art, which is ingrained into individuals and can only be fine-tuned, never learnt afresh if you do not already have it in you.2010, Ashok Menon, Life Style Grooming, →ISBN. From the entry man management
  • Or about re-encountering and understanding afresh the profound relevance of Illich's insights at the grassroots, in the pluriverse of millions of peoples decried and denigrated as "uneducated" and "illiterate"?2002, Lee Hoinacki, Carl Mitcham, The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry pluriverse

Meaning of afresh

  1. adverb Anew; again; once more.

Full definition of afresh

Questions about afresh in a sentence

How do you use afresh in a sentence?
Afresh is used as an adverb. For example: “We ditched the original design and decided to start afresh.”
What is a short sentence with afresh?
“That was a debacle. We'll start afresh.”
What does afresh mean?
Afresh means anew; again; once more.

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