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How to use reconnect in a sentence

17 example sentences · verb

Reconnect means to connect again or differently. Example: “Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.”

Examples of reconnect by meaning

verbTo connect again or differently.

  • Thameslink reconnected north and south London by reopening tunnels between Farringdon and Blackfriars, and there was talk of a Channel Tunnel connecting Britain's rail network with that of continental Europe.2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 64

verbTo meet up again (with someone), after a long time apart and/or without communication; to reunite.

  • Around 5,000 visitors attended Rail Live on June 16-17, to reconnect after a two-year hiatus because of COVID restrictions.2021 June 30, Stefanie Foster, “Rail Live 2021: reconnecting, resetting, rebuilding the railway”, in RAIL, number 934, page 12, photo...

More sentences with reconnect

  • Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.From the entry yet
  • My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.From the entry rift
  • Reconnect and bring the presence of your spirit animal into your ordinary, everyday affairs.2014, David Carson, How to Find your Spirit Animal, →ISBN. From the entry spirit animal
  • I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.2008, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, page 73. From the entry get
  • Have each other before dinner to reconnect after a long day.2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134. From the entry have
  • If I could only reconnect with her somehow and begin all over again.2008, Ross Dale, Embedded, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry mulligan
  • To go into Chaochou for lodging or food, disconnect and go left here, then reconnect at this intersection to continue.1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105. From the entry Chaochou
  • The SDR made clear that long-term success depends on reconnecting society with the Armed Forces and the purpose of Defence, supported by a national conversation.2025 December 15, Richard Knighton, “Chief of the Defence Staff speech”, in Gov.uk. From the entry SDR
  • The humble brand understands that it needs to re-earn attention, re-earn loyalty, and reconnect with its audience as if every day is the first day.2013, Seth Godin, Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012, →ISBN. From the entry re-earn
  • Knowing I'd be among the crew wielding a scalpel in the area of his love spuds allowed Bobby and me to reconnect in no time.2010, Annelise Ryan, Scared Stiff, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry love spuds
  • The following decade, when the Traubs moved to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the families reconnected during the Traubs’ annual summer visit to Evanston.2009 August 21, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022. From the entry Fla.
  • I will break down a lot of the medical jargon and dogma that freaks you out and help you reconnect with the powerful mama you were meant to be.2019, Susan G. Schiff, Fertility Fuel. From the entry tick-tock biological clock
  • Animals that were given the treatment produced an enzyme called chondroitinase which breaks down scar tissue and allows the broken nerves to reconnect with each other.2018 June 14, Ian Sample, The Guardian. From the entry chondroitinase
  • There was something behind that superfake smile of hers (a whiff of desperation?) that made Tiernan pretty sure Summer wasn't here to reconnect with her old middle school pals.2012, Hilary Weisman Graham, Reunited, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry superfake
  • Like their buy-side counterparts, the sell side will welcome entrepreneurs with open arms for no other reason than to regain the home court advantage: to reconnect to the buy side.2009, Richard Goldberg, The Battle for Wall Street, →ISBN. From the entry sell side

Meaning of reconnect

  1. verb To connect again or differently.
  2. verb To meet up again (with someone), after a long time apart and/or without communication; to reunite.

Full definition of reconnect

Questions about reconnect in a sentence

How do you use reconnect in a sentence?
Reconnect is used as a verb. For example: “Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.”
What is a short sentence with reconnect?
“Have each other before dinner to reconnect after a long day.”
What does reconnect mean?
Reconnect means to connect again or differently.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reconnect (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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