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How to use reconsider in a sentence

27 example sentences · verb

Reconsider means to consider a matter again. Example: “Is there any way I can get you to reconsider selling your car?”

Examples of reconsider by meaning

verbTo consider a matter again.

  • Is there any way I can get you to reconsider selling your car?
  • The two local leaders are far from alone in reconsidering the technology.2026 July 27, Maya Nelson, “Across the state, communities are taking down Flock Safety cameras. Could Shasta be next?”, in Shasta Scout...

More sentences with reconsider

  • My boss urged me to reconsider my decision to leave the company, even offering a pay rise.From the entry urge
  • Those who have been cracking up the agricultural industry will hopefully reconsider their denigration of it.From the entry crack up
  • He really took it to heart when I asked him to reconsider.From the entry take to heart
  • We should reconsider the purported salutogenic benefits of chocolate consumption in light of new evidence.From the entry salutogenic
  • The research suggests that companies should promote gender diversity training and reconsider diversity management in the workplace.2025 May 6, Akira Aikyo Galvão, Silvia Pereira De Castro Casa Nova, Juh Círico, “Non-Binary People in the Labor Market: An Integrative…. From the entry exorsexism
  • Based on that phylogenetic hypothesis, the taxonomic definitions of many coccinelloid groups were reconsidered.2022 November 24, Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Wioletta Tomaszewska, Karol Szawaryn, James Robertson, Matthias Seidel, Adam Ślipiński, Martin…. From the entry coccinelloid
  • If you are unhappy in your relationship and considering polyamory as a “one-foot-out-the-door” strategy, please reconsider.2016 January 14, “When Your Partner Wants Non-Monogamy and You Don't”, in Psychology Today. From the entry one foot out the door
  • On second thought, she reconsidered, looking up into Murphy's eyes; maybe he was a little off-kilter.2014, Marie Ferrarella, Her Forever Cowboy, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry off-kilter
  • Reconsider preexchange financing strategy for alternative outcomes that may be more favorable to the parties.1980, Herman Kelting, Real estate investments, page 216. From the entry preexchange
  • This is a stereotype we need to reconsider based on the latest demographic shifts we are seeing in and around London.2017 October 12, Ian Warren, “How the Conservatives lost their home counties heartland”, in The Guardian. From the entry home county
  • We will never have to reconsider our previous choices.2013, Steven Halim, Felix Halim, Competitive Programming 3: The New Lower Bound of Programming Contests., page 89. From the entry greedy property
  • Or do you reconsider at, say, 65?2012 January 7, Janice Turner, “Like the financial bubble, implants will burst”, in The Times, number 70463, London, page 25. From the entry melonious
  • In this paper the authors reconsider the Dirac brackets for fermionic coordinates in the context of quantum deformations of the superplane.1998, Mathematical Reviews, Mathematical Association of America. From the entry superplane
  • If those elements are wanting, then the writer has to go back to reconsider the subject, reresearch it, refocus.1989, Donald M[urray] Morison, Expecting the Unexpected: Teaching Myself—and Others—to Read and Write, Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook…. From the entry reresearch
  • He reconsidered his belief that there was no delirium, wondering if the feeling were not itself a form of hallucination.1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry buoyant
  • Then, when I came back they reconsidered things.1946, Richard McMillan, Miracle Before Berlin. From the entry bowler hat out
  • On 3 January, Republican senator Rick Scott urged in a letter to Newsweek’s top brass to “reconsider its relationship with Vipp Jaswal”.2022 January 22, Vincent Ni, “China hires western TikTokers to polish its image during 2022 Winter Olympics”, in The Guardian. From the entry top brass
  • Before undertaking the broadband comparisons of the piezomagnetoelastic and piezoelastic configurations, the voltage history of Figure 8.17b is reconsidered in two parts.2011, Alper Erturk, Daniel J. Inman, Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting. From the entry piezoelastic
  • It is interesting that Galatea makes reference to some encouragement from "post-op" transsexuals, though other "non-ops" advise surgical candidates to reconsider their decision.1998, Claudine Griggs, S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes, Berg, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 84–85. From the entry non-op
  • While this might seem like the time to get out into the yard and start performing all kinds of springly tasks, reconsider.1995, Jeff Ball, Liz Ball, Smart Yard. From the entry springly
  • There will be financial and other incentives to encourage voluntary recruitment, but if that fails to find the numbers a compulsory nationwide call-up will be reconsidered.2025 November 13, Kate Connolly, “Germany decides against conscription to replenish post-cold war military”, in The Guardian. From the entry compulsory
  • Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider the blanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.2021 October 15, “Stalin writes to four States CMs against blanket ban on firecrackers”, in The Hindu. From the entry blanket
  • If the banks knew how big Archegos’s position was, they may have realized other banks were supplying it with the same leverage — and reconsidered the trade.2021 May 18, Alexis Goldstein, “These Invisible Whales Could Sink the Economy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry whale
  • The second motion, to adjourn, is secondable and requires a majority vote, but is not debatable or amendable, and cannot be reconsidered (no D, A or R shown).1953, George Demeter, Manual of parliamentary law and procedure, page 98. From the entry secondable
  • “While there is still time, we urge Florida to reconsider this change to help prevent a rise of infectious disease outbreaks that put health and lives at risk,” said Dr.2025 September 3, Curt Anderson, “Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates”, in AP News, archived…. From the entry ama

Meaning of reconsider

  1. verb To consider a matter again.
  2. verb To change one's mind, with or without actually considering the matter again.

Full definition of reconsider

Questions about reconsider in a sentence

How do you use reconsider in a sentence?
Reconsider is used as a verb. For example: “Is there any way I can get you to reconsider selling your car?”
What is a short sentence with reconsider?
“Or do you reconsider at, say, 65?”
What does reconsider mean?
Reconsider means to consider a matter again.

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