How to Use resurrect in a Sentence
resurrect
verb- The story is about a scientist who claimed that he could resurrect the dead.
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Fox has tried to resurrect some of those claims as well.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
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The bowls were refilled, but the seed to resurrect the park was planted.
—Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2024
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Are there plans to resurrect that film script at some point?
—Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
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The point here is that Marvel will not resurrect Iron Man.
—Maren Estrada, BGR, 29 Dec. 2022
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Rosendahl wanted to resurrect the Nordic Theater, which used to be in Marquette near the Delft.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
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Only after The Bee inquired about it was the case resurrected and the DA filed charges.
—Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 26 June 2024
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Keisean Nixon appears to have been the spark that the Green Bay Packers needed to resurrect their season.
—Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023
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Huge thanks to @olliesblog for being so kind and selfless in resurrecting Punk 685 for me.
—Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 27 Mar. 2023
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The original floor of the Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine is being resurrected one section at a time.
—Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
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Meanwhile, Eric is resurrected from the dead to fight for justice against the people who killed him and Shelly.
—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
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Styles that have had their heyday are resurrected in new ways.
—Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 17 Mar. 2023
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Twenty-five years later, a boy resurrects his father’s dream – to play a home game and lose by fewer than 10 goals.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
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The controversial coach who put Hoover on the map will try to resurrect the football program at Pell City.
—Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
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And what better time right now to revive this play, resurrect this play and activate Ossie Davis' words?
—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
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Their religion teaches that the good among us will resurrect in their own bodies… but that’s a lot of bodies!
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
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In Lin’s retelling, the workers are resurrected as demons, seething with chaotic desire.
—Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
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But Biden's policy has so far failed to resurrect it, and Iran has steadily upped the ante in violating its end of the agreement.
—Tara John, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
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Of course, that made the timing right for Steve Fisher to come along and resurrected a program that, if not the worst in Division I, was certainly in the mix.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
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On October 12, Gabrielle Union spared us the suspense by resurrecting the peplum top once and for all.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2023
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Instead, Stratford is one of at least nine shuttered colleges whose names have been resurrected on the web.
—Chris Quintana, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2024
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Okay, sure, that actress died in 1990, but who’s to say that digital magic and Archimedes’ genius couldn’t resurrect her?
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 30 June 2023
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Love and Cher have not been the only ones resurrecting the tune this holiday season.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
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Hernandez proceeded to tell the story of the plane crash, its victims, the ignominy of their erasure and his journey to resurrect their stories and share them with the world.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
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State of Decay 3 hopes to resurrect the series after a middling outing.
—Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 9 June 2024
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Southern Ocean Lodge has been resurrected and rebuilt as a near replica of its former self.
—Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2024
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Up and down the coast, ships were converted from other uses or resurrected.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
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The legal situation is still unresolved, but the Reddit page was shut down amid the furor, though it has since been resurrected.
—Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
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The sequel sees the sisters resurrected yet again — and gives insight into how the Sandersons became witches centuries ago.
—Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 19 July 2024
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More samples, from tissues other than skin, may be needed to resurrect a mammothlike beast.
—Richard Stone, science.org, 11 July 2024
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