How to Use reelect in a Sentence

reelect

verb
  • He was reelected to the school committee.
  • Elizondo was reelected, but by the narrowest margin of his career.
    Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Despite her passing, her name remained on the ballot that November where she was reelected by a wide margin.
    Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2020
  • And President Trump is counting on a strong economy to motivate voters to turn out at the polls and reelect him.
    Heather Long, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Martens was appointed by a Republican governor in 2001 and has been reelected since then.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Impeachment shields Pelosi from left-wing recriminations in the event that Trump is reelected and Democrats retain the House.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Bush coasted the victory in 2004, but that win was largely attributed to the country reelecting a commander-in-chief during wartime.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2024
  • She was reelected in 2002 and was the first appeals judge to be elected to the Supreme Court.
    Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
  • But there won’t be much of a safe space for Biden if he is reelected.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The New York judges could suspend the case if Trump is reelected.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • That same year, Putin would reclaim the seat, and was reelected in 2018.
    Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2024
  • In the short term, the answer is to reelect President Trump.
    Stanley Kurtz, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • David Cote, a Democrat from Nashua, was reelected but still hasn’t been sworn in.
    Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • He was reelected last year for a second eight-year term.
    Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2023
  • The union also spent more than $1 million on efforts to reelect Lacey.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Trump has also promised to try and get rid of Obamacare if reelected.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • She was reelected last year, leaving about three years left on her term.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • And adding to the stakes is that Scott’s Democratic supporter in the White House may not be reelected this fall.
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
  • The ethics probe went nowhere, and Rogers was reelected to her second term in November.
    Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2023
  • She was most recently reelected to a four-year term in 2021.
    Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Montgomery Steppe was reelected to the council just last year to a term that ends in December 2026.
    Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Nathan Senn ran and narrowly won his first race in 2019 and was reelected by about a hundred votes this spring.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • She was reelected last year after the zones were redrawn.
    Monica Brich, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
  • La Grange seated a new Village Board Monday night, with three trustees being reelected and one new to the board.
    Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
  • He was indicted on related charges in 2015 and reelected twice as the case stalled in court.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 19 June 2023
  • Brown said voters should reelect her to keep consistency on the bench.
    Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • In the event that Trump is reelected, Europeans must be able to sustain the Ukrainian war effort on their own.
    Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Biden will be 82 years old should he be reelected for another term.
    Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Five board members were reelected, and three new members were also elected to the board.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • If reelected, Trump would already have to grapple with a historically high national debt while promising to make the tax cuts passed during his first term permanent.
    The Editors, National Review, 19 Sep. 2024

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