How to Use resurrect in a Sentence

resurrect

verb
  • The story is about a scientist who claimed that he could resurrect the dead.
  • He is trying to resurrect his acting career.
  • The dish is that Dish (and not its next move) may resurrect talks.
    — WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Talk of resurrecting it would pop up in the years since.
    — J.r. Gonzales, Houston Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Are there plans to resurrect that film script at some point?
    — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The job of resurrecting UCLA might be too tough for even him.
    — Joseph Goodman, al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The point here is that Marvel will not resurrect Iron Man.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Then, about 10 months to resurrect my dark-brown 3B curls.
    — Ebony-Renee Baker, refinery29.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • But attempts to resurrect the Leviathan finally came to fruition in the late 1990s.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Rosendahl wanted to resurrect the Nordic Theater, which used to be in Marquette near the Delft.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024
  • Her plan is to use Omega, dead or alive, as a gene bank to resurrect the Time Lords and construct a new Gallifrey.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 1 June 2025
  • If this is their way of resurrecting things, good for them.
    — Jim Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • In sci-fi, life tends to find a way, and some 200 years later, she's resurrected as a clone.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Easter is still a few days away, but the Lorde has been resurrected.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2025
  • It’s also kind of a perfect way to resurrect the entire cast that has just been killed off.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • There aren’t a ton of magical arms waiting in the minors to resurrect the bullpen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
  • Only after The Bee inquired about it was the case resurrected and the DA filed charges.
    — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 26 June 2024
  • If the rumors are true, Taco Bell is about to resurrect a popular item from its menu that the fast food chain killed off back in the fall.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The idea for the dirt bike park would be resurrected in December 2019.
    — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • That law expired in 2010, and the tax was resurrected in an even weaker form.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The deal had been nearly two years in the making and killed and resurrected over half a dozen times during that span.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Those with the ability to resurrect the dead often are.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 28 June 2022
  • Huge thanks to @olliesblog for being so kind and selfless in resurrecting Punk 685 for me.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Dan Campbell may be 'the only guy that can resurrect' the Lions.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2021
  • Through it all, Lucas Kerr, 44, dreamed of resurrecting the thriving farm days of his youth.
    — Colette Coleman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Which might suggest zombie action à la The Last of Us, except these resurrected have no evident interest in eating anyone’s brains, just in returning to their old lives.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • The horror film explores a fraught mother-daughter relationship put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to resurrect her husband.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 June 2025

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