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How to use reset in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Reset means to set back to the initial state. Example: “After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.”

Examples of reset by meaning

verbTo set back to the initial state.

  • We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • The next section explains how to reset the administrator password with the help of this challenge question.2008, Bonnie Biafore, QuickBooks 2009: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 654

verbTo adjust; to set or position differently.

  • With the Linotype method, the whole line had to be reset and replaced.2005, Alan Pipes, Production for Graphic Designers, 4th edition, Laurence King Publishing, →ISBN, page 66

nounThe act of resetting to the initial state.

  • A reset halts whatever is taking place on the bus and prepares devices for the beginning of a new communication cycle.2003, Dan Eisenreich, Brian DeMuth, Designing Embedded Internet Devices, Newnes, →ISBN, page 350
  • That is why I have called for a ‘reset’ in relations between the United States and Russia.2009 July 7, Luke Harding, Matthew Weaver, quoting Barack Obama, “Barack Obama calls for 'reset' in US-Russia relations”, in The Guardian
  • On older PCs, a BIOS reset can set the default video output to the motherboard when your monitor is plugged into a PCIe graphics card.2016, Mike Halsey, Windows 10 Troubleshooting, Apress, →ISBN, page 198

verbTo receive and hide (stolen goods, or a criminal, etc.).

  • Criminal resetting of property shall not be limited to the receiving of property taken by theft or robbery, but shall extend to the receiving of property appropriated by breach of trust and embezzlement and by falsehood, fraud and wilful imposition.1995, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part VI, section 51”, in Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, page 41

More sentences with reset

  • After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.From the entry hourglass
  • In a series featuring a long line of characters prone to powercreep, Grace represents a soft reset.2026 February 25, Nat Smith, “Resident Evil Requiem review - survival horror's greatest hits album”, in PCGamesN, Bath, Somerset…. From the entry powercreep
  • She also forced a factory reset on her phone multiple times, according to testimony.2025 July 7, Victoria Kim, Livia Albeck-Ripka, “Erin Patterson Is Found Guilty of Murder in Australia Mushroom Poisoning Case”, in The New…. From the entry factory reset
  • While contemporary designers give us trends, Quant reset the dial on the way we get dressed.2021 October 28, Karen Dacre, “Miniskirt mayhem! Nine ways Mary Quant revolutionised women’s clothes – and lives”, in The Guardian. From the entry reset the dial
  • Ghaazi scrambles and pushes me out of the way, hard resetting the system.2021, Olivia Chadha, Rise of the Red Hand, Volume 1, page 179. From the entry hard-reset
  • A factory reset returns your Android device to “out of the box” condition.2014, Mark Edward Soper, The PC and Gadget Help Desk, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 590. From the entry factory reset
  • Do not hard reset the computer while you're using a disk caching program!1993, Ron Dippold, Windows Secrets, page 155. From the entry hard-reset
  • With a delicate touch, he reset his golden peruke on his sweat-slick skull.1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 135. From the entry peruke
  • Just try and I'll donder you says Jan and resets his hook.1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry donder
  • Second, as more people add these roofs, the annual pricing on the bond resets to reflect the changing exposure.2025 December 1, Leslie Kaufman, “How ‘Super Roofs’ Reward Insurers, Cat Bond Investors and Homeowners. Investors snapped up a catastrophe…. From the entry cat bond
  • It would of course be premature to declare that Swinney's policy reset amounts to the "unwoking" of the Scottish government.2024 May 12, Iain Macwhirter, “John Swinney is following votes by 'unwoking' SNP”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry unwoke
  • Wordle is a seemingly simple puzzle, giving users six tries to guess a five-letter word that resets every day.2022 January 31, Doha Madani, “Wordle, the latest internet game sensation, is headed to The New York Times”, in NBC News, archived from…. From the entry wordle
  • Alarm activations cause the driver to have to stop the train - and in some cases walk back to reset it.2021 November 3, “Network News: GA suffers cancellations and delays caused by alarm activations”, in RAIL, number 943, page 17. From the entry activation
  • Blue-light escorts were provided where possible to get engineers to the stranded GTR trains to reset the software.2019 October, Roger Ford, “Power failure highlights specification confusion”, in Modern Railways, page 26. From the entry blue light
  • You can't reset it (push it back out of view) until air pressure is brought above 60 psi.2010, Mike Byrnes and Associates, “Air Brakes”, in Barron’s CDL: Commercial Driver’s License Truck Driver’s Test, 3rd edition, Hauppauge…. From the entry wigwag
  • The gadroon strips have been reset, their roseheads countersunk.1985, Morrison H. Heckscher, Mary-Alice Rogers, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 115. From the entry rosehead
  • For now, it’s hard to conclude that Sunak will succeed in rebooting a government that’s been reset more times than most people’s Gmail passwords.2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian. From the entry gmail
  • Chinese state media has pressed pause on the US-bashing, releasing a raft of commentaries extolling the merits of resetting relations and working on co-operation.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC. From the entry press pause
  • But ministers have promised to “reset the dial” on gender inequalities in healthcare, with the publication of the first ever government-led women’s health strategy.2022 July 20, Hannah Devlin, “Are there enough concrete commitments in the women’s health strategy to truly ‘reset the dial’?”, in The…. From the entry reset the dial
  • To allow the actor to reset their own performance in a space right offset; which may also include resetting wardrobe and makeup.2021, Kevin Marshall Pinkney, On the Mark. From the entry offset
  • Klaus Schwab, WEF’s founder and executive chairman, invoked the need to help provoke a “great reset” around the world in the wake of the pandemic.2021 January 29, Ishaan Tharoor, quoting Klaus Schwab, “World leaders pledge a ‘great reset’ after the pandemic”, in Washington Post, →ISSN. From the entry great reset
  • “Anyone who doesn’t realise that the great reset is the biggest threat to our form of life right now hasn’t been paying attention,” he said.2020 December 4, Quinn Slobodian, quoting James Delingpole, “How the ‘great reset’ of capitalism became an anti-lockdown conspiracy”, in…. From the entry great reset
  • In the meantime, it is possible for the embedded software to “kick” the watchdog timer, to reset its counter to the original large number.1999, Michael Barr, Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, page 98. From the entry kick
  • By French-Style Revolution I don't mean a violent overthrow of the ruling elite as much as a tumultuous reset of how resources and power are distributed.2023 December 10, Charles Hugh Smith, Could America Have a French-Style Revolution?. From the entry resource
  • With no way of communicating with Washington, South Dakota simply held course whilst men in the switchboard room tried their best to reset the ship's entire electrical grid.2021 March 17, Drachinifel, 13:14 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 2 (IJN 3(?) : 3 USN), archived…. From the entry whack-a-mole
  • The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes.2016, Melissa Hartwig, Food Freedom Forever. From the entry midday
  • But after a year of sagging ratings, Dallas hit the reset button, by having Pam wake up to see Bobby, very much alive, lathering up in their shower.2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry reset button
  • Obama may yet have a chance to reset the stale debate in Washington, or at least to hasten the transition from one moment to the next.2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times. From the entry transition
  • An aggressor experiences a revulsion to hurting his victim, but the discomfort cannot last forever, and eventually a reassuring, energizing counteremotion resets his equilibrium to neutral.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 670. From the entry counteremotion
  • A sudden overshoot during the postictal stage followed by significant disentrainment indicates the resetting feature of the seizure (the seizure restores the pre-seizure entrainment to a more normal state).2008, Panos M. Pardalos, Vladimir L. Boginski, Alkis Vazacopoulos, Data Mining in Biomedicine, →ISBN, page 549. From the entry disentrainment
  • This has been incorporated into the Wind Waker! to access the second quest, start a game, save, and then hold the reset button the cube WHILE POWERING OFF.2003 April 1, Steven C (Doktersteve), “Wind Waker - how to access the second quest!”, in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube (Usenet). From the entry second quest
  • Once the blooper is around the spinnaker, let out the blooper sheet completely (which collapses the blooper), race the blooper sheet forward and reset on the other side.1976, Yacht Racing, volume 15, Chicago, Ill.: One-Design Yachtsman, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 3. From the entry blooper
  • Systems become vulnerable to such resets when they become highly asymmetrical in how they distribute resources and power, and rigid in their defense of the extreme inequality of the distribution.2023 December 10, Charles Hugh Smith, Could America Have a French-Style Revolution?. From the entry resource

Meaning of reset

  1. verb To set back to the initial state.
  2. verb To set to zero.
  3. verb To adjust; to set or position differently.

Full definition of reset

Questions about reset in a sentence

How do you use reset in a sentence?
Reset is used as a verb and noun. For example: “After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next player.”
What is a short sentence with reset?
“The gadroon strips have been reset, their roseheads countersunk.”
What does reset mean?
Reset means to set back to the initial state.

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