How to Use retweet in a Sentence

retweet

verb
Definition of retweetnext
  • People who wanted to stand a chance at earning the prize had to retweet the post and follow him.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Mostly to make jokes or to retweet somebody that's funnier than me.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2021
  • To win one of the controllers, follow the @Xbox Twitter account and retweet the announcement.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2022
  • In the current test, tweets that get this label will get an orange icon and people will still be able to reply or retweet them.
    — Barbara Ortutay, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2021
  • Sometimes Trump will retweet a post with false claims that is already going viral.
    — CNN, 8 Nov. 2020
  • But the post's visibility would be reduced, and people won't be able to retweet it.
    — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Twitter initially left the video up but blocked people from being able to retweet it or comment on it.
    — Barbara Ortutay, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2021
  • If someone tries to retweet it anyway, they’ll be greeted with yet another warning with a link to learn more but will still be able to share it.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Baker was seemingly happy to retweet a clip of the interview.
    — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2023
  • When someone says something nice about your company on Twitter, retweet it and thank them for reaching out.
    — Yec, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • There’s a funny meme a lot of people have started to retweet every Friday afternoon.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, was among the thousands of people to retweet McCann's message.
    — Ella Torres, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • After the 6-5 loss to the Diamondbacks, Stroman took to Twitter to retweet several posts and comment on the incident.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
  • Followers can pick up and retweet a quick insight shared on Twitter, for example, which gives you the potential to get in front of new audiences.
    — Jessica Wong, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Metrics, Metrics, Metrics For most of Twitter’s history, users could only like, retweet or reply to a post.
    — Kate Conger, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • More than 20 people retweet my video, including big-hearted Colts owner Jim Irsay.
    — Gregg Doyel, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Twitter users are still able to post links to Substack newsletters, but other users are unable to like, retweet, or reply to those posts, severely limiting the reach of such posts.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The band hasn't officially commented on the song's rising popularity but did retweet a teaser of the scene, which is getting a lot of love from fans online.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com, 4 July 2022
  • In this preposterous scenario, users would have to pay a fractional amount of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin to post or retweet.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Social media users can also retweet Arbor Day Foundation's message about planting trees to help during this project.
    — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2021
  • After the election Twitter will eventually allow people to retweet again without prompting them to add their own context.
    — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Rand’s team found that Twitter users who’d been chastised for posting a false story were more likely to retweet news stories from extremely partisan or less trustworthy sites.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2021
  • Barrett also automated a system that would retweet others in the birding community who tagged the account.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Wilson — often active on social media — decided to retweet Padilla, and within a week, the junior got a follow-back from the official OSU football account.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The article also listed 11 Taiwan celebrities who did not retweet the One China message, suggesting that fans will judge them accordingly.
    — Dan Chen, The Conversation, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Trump’s decisions to retweet a video showing unmasked supporters lined up outside Walter Reed Medical Center.
    — Alan Gomez, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • This network appeared to work in coordination to like and retweet content that supported Chinese government policies, such as the campaign videos, as well as news articles and editorials from state media.
    — ProPublica, 28 June 2021
  • Still, people enthusiastically retweet or share photos of beaches in disgust, even when the photograph shows no crowding whatsoever.
    — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 4 July 2020
  • The company permanently banned political advertising last year, began labeling content that misled viewers about the electoral process or its outcome and slowed down users’ ability to retweet content.
    — Kate Conger, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Additionally, Twitter plans to display a new prompt that provides credible information when users attempt to retweet a post that Twitter has identified as containing misleading information.
    — Georgia Wells, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'retweet.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: