How to Use resurrect in a Sentence

resurrect

verb
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  • The story is about a scientist who claimed that he could resurrect the dead.
  • He is trying to resurrect his acting career.
  • Fox has tried to resurrect some of those claims as well.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The bowls were refilled, but the seed to resurrect the park was planted.
    — Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Are there plans to resurrect that film script at some point?
    — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The point here is that Marvel will not resurrect Iron Man.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Huge thanks to @olliesblog for being so kind and selfless in resurrecting Punk 685 for me.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 27 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Styles that have had their heyday are resurrected in new ways.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 17 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • And what better time right now to revive this play, resurrect this play and activate Ossie Davis' words?
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • In Lin’s retelling, the workers are resurrected as demons, seething with chaotic desire.
    — Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • On October 12, Gabrielle Union spared us the suspense by resurrecting the peplum top once and for all.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Love and Cher have not been the only ones resurrecting the tune this holiday season.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Southern Ocean Lodge has been resurrected and rebuilt as a near replica of its former self.
    — Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Up and down the coast, ships were converted from other uses or resurrected.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • 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
  • Along with low-rise jeans, the recent Y2K-style renaissance has resurrected going-out tops.
    — Emilia Petrarca, wsj.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Thornill’s ultimate goal was to resurrect her dead relative; the founder of Jericho, Joseph Crackstone.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 29 Nov. 2022
  • In the works for 20 years, the new show is a fantasy about ancient magical heroes who get resurrected to fight evil in a steampunk future.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 5 May 2023
  • The rental bank When the pandemic hit, the state of Connecticut saw an opportunity to resurrect an old program that had been defunct for years by 2020–a rental bank.
    — Eric Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Stone stars opposite Willem Dafoe, who plays the brilliant, yet unorthodox, scientist who resurrects Belle from the dead.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 Feb. 2024

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