How to Use rerun in a Sentence

rerun

1 of 2 verb
  • They reran the race, but the result was the same.
  • He reran the software on my computer.
  • Last week's show is being rerun tomorrow night.
  • So, the researchers reran the meta-analyses using three of these tools.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2019
  • It was also not removed when the telecast was rerun late at night.
    — David Bauder, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • They were forced to rerun the race, and this time Panek clipped a hurdle and finished eighth.
    — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The state monitors lab reports and can have tests rerun if something seems amiss.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Unfortunately, there's been a lot of need to rerun it since then.
    — Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2022
  • Over the course of five or six weeks Bintliff will siphon off excess liquid and rerun the mud through the strainer.
    — Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The hearing test can be assigned a custom name and can be rerun and saved whenever the user likes.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The accountants plan to rerun those once tax software is updated to reflect the new rule.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Maybe the career highlights packages will be rerun, or perhaps repackaged.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Yet a Blue Bloods rerun on ION looked a tiny bit less vibrant.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Soldiers, like Colonel Buccino, soon tired of rerunning the same old script.
    — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Residual fees — or money paid when a film or series is rerun or aired on broadcast — has helped pad the wallets of writers for years.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
  • From there, the qualifying ballots are rerun through the machine for a second tally.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • That would save Germany the trouble of having to rerun its September vote.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2018
  • By Tuesday afternoon, the forecast models will have been rerun.
    — Judson Jones, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Prosecutors could try to rerun the case with new charges, but any effort might encounter a six-year statute of limitations.
    — Ed White, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • All of the original tests were rerun Sunday night and each of them came back negative for coronavirus.
    — oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Huda quickly worked with a technician to rerun some of her experiments.
    — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 17 June 2022
  • If the eyes are the window to the soul, our under eyes are an indication of last night's 12-hour Friends rerun marathon.
    — Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 26 Jan. 2024
  • When Sheppard reran the data, the images confirmed that 20 dots of light traced out orbits around Saturn.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2019
  • And don't be surprised if broadcast networks turn to their sister cable stations or streaming sites to borrow a series or two for rerunning.
    — Freep.com, 8 May 2020
  • The scientists ran and reran the numbers for a week before the Livermore team confirmed the findings at a news conference.
    — Frances Stead Sellers, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The same episode on a broadcast network could pay up to $3,600 for each rerun, with the potential for multiple reruns in a year.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In trial after trial, the protein evolves via the exact same path, as though evolution were a tape recording that could be rerun over and over again to produce the same outcome.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2015
  • Aaru reran the entire survey blind—no humans—and its simulated respondents said roughly 40%.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • While Uber has conducted background checks for years, the company previously only reran those checks in areas where it was required by law.
    — Lisa Marie Segarra, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
  • So, if Comedy Central wants to honor his memory, perhaps the best way to do so would be to rerun the episode over and over rather than pull it from rotation.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025

rerun

2 of 2 noun
  • She spent her vacation watching summer reruns.
  • The talk show is in reruns the week of April 6.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Late-night shows went into reruns.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In the meantime, fans can enjoy rerun episodes.
    — Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • None of us want a rerun of last year’s horrors with Covid-19.
    — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The following week will also see four rerun episodes.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Just chicken soup and ‘I Love Lucy’ reruns.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Pufnstuf was canceled in 1970 but lived on in reruns as well.
    — Andy Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The show will air reruns the week of April 6 for the Passover holiday.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Cheerleaders hyped up the energy while reruns of past games played on a giant screen.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Do Democrats want a rerun of the Omicron nightmare on the eve of the election?
    — David Faris, The Week, 29 Mar. 2022
  • New movies Each of these networks is also stuffed with Christmas-movie reruns.
    — Mike Hughes, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Nov. 2025
  • These days, the cast of Friends earns $20 million a year off of rerun residuals.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 28 July 2022
  • The saga of Dracula has become an endless rerun.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The same movie has played on rerun at Empower Field this season, game after game.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • That was true in the endless reruns of the original show, the cartoon series, the novels, and the big-screen movies.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The main goal is to spend less time rewatching reruns of Downton Abbey and more time meal-prepping.
    — Jamie Wilde, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The beloved late-night sketch comedy show plans to air reruns for the time being since sketches are written during the week of each episode.
    — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 2 May 2023
  • Also nowadays, and for the last 20 years, my shows have been rerun on Univision.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
  • To avoid this, MechStyle tracks where risky changes occur and only reruns physics checks when needed.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live viewers were in for a shock last night when the show aired a rerun without warning.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The interview turned into a hangout session with scotch and reruns of Star Trek.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This will be rerun later in the evening and again when Swensen’s team releases more results Thursday.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Do Italian hotel TVs have reruns of Pawn Stars too?
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Odinga challenged the results in the country’s Supreme Court, and the judges ordered a rerun.
    — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
  • An entire archive of potential reruns—more than eight hundred videos—also lay at his disposal.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • But in the four decades since its release, Labyrinth has become a cult classic, in part because of its release on home video and cable reruns.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
  • Miss Manners can understand your reluctance to play a supporting role in this rerun.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Listeners who tuned in on the morning the show aired heard a broadcast that ran ads and reruns rather than a live show, according to Newsday.
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Ronald Reagan is bizarrely never mentioned in the movie, not even a news clip in the background between reruns of Badlands.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025

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