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How to use reenter in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb

Reenter means to enter again; return into. Example: “The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.”

Examples of reenter by meaning

verbTo enter again; return into.

  • The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.
  • It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.1981 April 5, Theodore Solotaroff, “REVIVING THE ANCIENT ART OF EXECUTION”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2025
  • But when officers finally reentered the building about 2 A.M., they found no one.1995 July 5, Norimitsu Onishi, “Tenement Is Briefly Seized In East Village”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Dec...

verbTo enter again; retype, reinput.

  • We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.

More sentences with reenter

  • We played until our fellow participants began to reenter the gym.2001, Phil Jackson, Charles Rosen, More Than a Game. From the entry exit stage left
  • "Reentering is about keeping your head on a swivel.2017, Keesha Middlemass, “Unwelcome Homecoming”, in Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry, page 65. From the entry keep one's head on a swivel
  • As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings.2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference, page 831. From the entry sloughing
  • Moving deliberately, the fish gave one smooth dolphinesque leap, spit out the hook, and reentered the water without a splash.1987, John Treadwell Nichols, A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country: Text and Photographs From His Life and Work, Salt Lake…. From the entry dolphinesque
  • But Wang Hai-yang, pursued by Fang Yao's Kwangtung provincial troops, reentered Fukien and laid siege to Yung-ting on May 15th.1973, Jen Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 540–541. From the entry Yung-ting
  • You'll need your keystrip to reenter.2014, Pat Cadigan, Pat Cadigan SF Gateway Omnibus. From the entry keystrip
  • Because each card reader is programmed for either entrance or exit, users must pass in and out before being allowed to reenter, thus eliminating passback.1988, Security Management, volume 32, numbers 1-6, page 107. From the entry passback

Meaning of reenter

  1. verb To enter again; return into.
  2. verb To enter again; retype, reinput.
  3. verb To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.

Full definition of reenter

Questions about reenter in a sentence

How do you use reenter in a sentence?
Reenter is used as a verb. For example: “The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.”
What is a short sentence with reenter?
“The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.”
What does reenter mean?
Reenter means to enter again; return into.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reenter (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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