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How to use rerun in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Rerun means an act or instance of rerunning; a repetition. Example: “I'm not a fan of the new Simpsons episodes, but the old reruns have me in stitches, although I've seen them countless times.”

Examples of rerun by meaning

nounAn act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.

  • The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times

nounA television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a...

  • I'm not a fan of the new Simpsons episodes, but the old reruns have me in stitches, although I've seen them countless times.

nounA second or subsequent run of a computer program.

  • Each rerun of the algorithm takes several minutes.

verbTo run again; to repeat.

  • Hill has rerun those questions in her mind.2013 July 6, N. R. Kleinfield, “The Girls Who Haven’t Come Home”, in The New York Times

verbTo broadcast (a television program etc.) again.

  • They're still rerunning The Flintstones on this channel.
  • Earlier Sunday, MTV ran and reran a compilation of Ms.2008 September 8, Jon Pareles, “At the MTV Video Music Awards, a Big Draw, a Punch Line and, Now, a Winner”, in The New York Times

verbTo be broadcast again.

  • For those who missed it (and those without a loved one's HBO Go password), Lemonade even reran just before the Game of Thrones' highly anticipated season six premiere on April 24.2016 April 28, Caroline Framke, “Beyoncé's Lemonade is on iTunes and Amazon — but will only stream on Tidal and Pandora”, in Vox

verbTo run (a race or other contest) again.

  • rerun the election
  • Thursday night, running in Lane 2 on an otherwise empty eight-lane track, at a half-empty Olympic Stadium, the United States women’s 4x100-meter relay team reran a qualifying round all by itself.2016 August 18, Jeré Longman, “U.S. Women Drop Baton, but Advance After a Second Chance”, in The New York Times

verbTo run (a computer program) again.

  • Restart the computer and rerun the installation.

More sentences with rerun

  • Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.From the entry fare
  • It's spoopy season – a time for pumpkin carving, trick or treating and "Hocus Pocus" reruns.2018 October 24, Amelia Calautti, “Get goosebumps with ‘Netflix and Chills’”, in Andrew Grottkau, Emily Abdow, editors, The Rice Thresher…. From the entry spoopy
  • By completing bonus quests – rerunning old levels while trying to meet targets – their wardrobes expand.2009 February 2, “Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers - hands-on”, in NGamer UK. From the entry jigglesome
  • Reruns revive the old Fred Thompson in all his precampaign savvy.2008 February 24, Eleanor Randolph, “It’s Law & Order”, in New York Times. From the entry precampaign
  • All that talk of one superpower -- us -- bestriding a "unipolar" world seems as dated as Seinfeld reruns.2031 August 12, Michael Kinsley, “The Bush Presidency, Eight Years Later”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2009. From the entry unipolar
  • When NBC licensed his reruns to the Arts & Entertainment cable network without consulting him, he was incensed.1992, Newsweek - Volume 120, page 55. From the entry rinky-dink
  • I loved reruns and old movies.2013, Debbie A. Harris, chapter 4, in Love Doesn't Come with a Guarantee, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry TVaholic
  • Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.2012 September 20, Shaun Edwards, “Bent double and lungs burning – how Harlequins train for trophies”, in The Guardian (online). From the entry pile
  • Lets me unannoyingly stay out in the room with her, and still be doing something useful ( as opposed to actually watching an umpteenth rerun of the Closer ).2010 November 22, jim d, “another exciting week passes .. almost”, in alt.music.makers.soloact (Usenet), archived from the original on 06…. From the entry unannoyingly

Meaning of rerun

  1. noun An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.
  2. noun A television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.
  3. noun Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc.

Full definition of rerun

Questions about rerun in a sentence

How do you use rerun in a sentence?
Rerun is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I'm not a fan of the new Simpsons episodes, but the old reruns have me in stitches, although I've seen them countless times.”
What is a short sentence with rerun?
“rerun the election”
What does rerun mean?
Rerun means an act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rerun (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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