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How to use reassert in a sentence

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Reassert means to assert again. Example: “Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.”

Examples of reassert by meaning

verbTo assert again.

  • Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC
  • They were tied to a revived religious class that took advantage of the end of anticlerical despotism to reassert Islamic views and practices and to regain some of their former sociopolitical status.2006, Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard, Modern Iran: roots and results of revolution, Yale University Press, page 120

More sentences with reassert

  • I had a brain-cramp there for a minute, the smile said, but now sanity has reasserted itself.2009, Stephen King, Under the Dome, online preview edition. From the entry brain cramp
  • After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 33. From the entry smackless
  • But for Esquires trend-mad, jazz-digging editor Harold Hayes, the prevailing disillusion was more fun than a second martini—matoor' values reasserting themselves.2015, Robert Christgau, Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: Dey St., →ISBN, page 197. From the entry matoor
  • That familiar mix of manic energy and piratical lunacy enabled the totemic Irishman to reassert his status as a world-class performer.2000 April 3, Chris Hewett, “Rugby: Running talent will put life into Lions”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 18 Jan 2018. From the entry you can't keep a good man down
  • And there it was, the old power-dynamic reasserting itself: Mum siding physically with Dad, ganging up and leaving her out in the cold.2014, Lucy Diamond [pseudonym; Sue Mongredien], One Night in Italy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN; republished London: Pan Books, 2016, →ISBN…. From the entry leave someone out in the cold
  • Yet the Aunswer wryly reapplies the same pair of words to describe its own finality as an answer, to reassert its boundaries of page space.2012, Chris Stamatakis, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting, page 190. From the entry rescriptive
  • A rat scampered across the tin cans and burst sandbags, and trench atmosphere reasserted itself in a smell of chloride of lime.1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 312 (Faber…. From the entry chloride of lime
  • Constable and Turner were needed to reassert the potentialities of natural colour and to disinvolve the miracle of light from the good taste of academic tone.2017, Edward Thomas, British Country Life in Autumn and Winter. From the entry disinvolve

Meaning of reassert

  1. verb To assert again.

Full definition of reassert

Questions about reassert in a sentence

How do you use reassert in a sentence?
Reassert is used as a verb. For example: “Gareth Bale gave his side hope with a goal shortly afterwards but the real damage was done and Chelsea reasserted their authority to finish easy winners with further goals from Ramires, Frank Lampard and Florent Malouda.”
What is a short sentence with reassert?
“After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.”
What does reassert mean?
Reassert means to assert again.

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