Examples of resurrect in a Sentence
The story is about a scientist who claimed that he could resurrect the dead.
He is trying to resurrect his acting career.
an old government program that is being resurrected
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The unrestricted grant resurrects the spirt of the AIDS Treatment Project, which Giorno started when the epidemic left so many artists in need beginning in the early ’80s.
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Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Todd was later controversially killed off after fans voted to off him in a telephone poll, though the character was resurrected in the early 2000s.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
But if the Russian government is resurrecting the ghosts of the Soviet past – and making life for ordinary Russians a whole lot more inconvenient – Putin himself is showing public indifference.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
Today’s conservatives are resurrecting the positions that Reynolds and his allies in the 1980s could not muscle past the internal GOP opposition in Congress and the Cabinet.
—Ronald Brownstein, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026
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Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Todd was later controversially killed off after fans voted to off him in a telephone poll, though the character was resurrected in the early 2000s.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
But if the Russian government is resurrecting the ghosts of the Soviet past – and making life for ordinary Russians a whole lot more inconvenient – Putin himself is showing public indifference.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
Today’s conservatives are resurrecting the positions that Reynolds and his allies in the 1980s could not muscle past the internal GOP opposition in Congress and the Cabinet.
—Ronald Brownstein, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026
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“Resurrect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resurrect. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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resurrect
verb
res·ur·rect
ˌrez-ə-ˈrekt 
1
: to raise from the dead : bring back to life
2
: to bring to attention or into use again
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