How to Use reload in a Sentence

reload

verb
  • He was forced to reload, which gave a hero — Dr. John Cheng — a chance to stop the carnage.
    Destiny Torres, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Out here among the tsetse flies, some 80 miles from the nearest town, their love could reload.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
  • Now the Hornets have reloaded and are ready to run it back with the same squad from a year ago.
    Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • When Donovan Solano singled to reload the bases, Gallen was done.
    John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2020
  • This could break the 90-degree streak, but the heat may reload after any brief cool-down.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
  • Fail to do so and the game ends, requiring you to reload your latest save.
    Jason Hidalgo, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Noem went back to her truck, reloaded, and blasted him again.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The vehicle became stuck and, unable to drive away, Morales tried to reload the weapon.
    Fox News, 12 July 2021
  • Then Porter reloaded and fired two to three more times at Bohman’s head, Porter told police.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2023
  • Razom’s staff in Ukraine then reloads the goods into vans to take where needed.
    Thalia Beaty, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The actor had to learn how to do a reverse 180 and drift all while reloading his prop gun and shooting it out of the door.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
  • When the funds run out, the cards will be reloaded with an additional $160.
    Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
  • The first step was reloading on talent through the transfer portal.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Nash then reloaded his weapon, fired again at the victims, reloaded once more, and calmly left the scene, Bouchard said.
    Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2024
  • There was a brief pause in the action as officers reloaded.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And even if the core frays, Fisch’s success has positioned Arizona to reload through the portal.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • So, the magazine’s size did not prevent him from having to reload his gun at least once.
    Emily Smith, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
  • After three years as the nation’s top offensive line, the Wolverines will have to reload in the trenches.
    J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The Frogs, in one of the best seasons in program history, have already started to reload.
    Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • That is not a criticism of the front office’s ability to reload the roster in the months during free agency and the draft.
    Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • That aid is reloaded onto trucks from the Gaza Strip and is allowed to proceed into the enclave.
    WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Then, the focus was on reloading with another class of blue-chip prospects who would go on to become first-round picks.
    Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Once the card is reloaded at the beginning of the next month, the benefits are vulnerable to theft.
    Kaitlyn Pohly, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2024
  • The Bulldogs are reloading on the defensive front and at quarterback but don’t lack for stars.
    Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Tran sprayed the room with bullets, reloaded, then started firing again.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • Now comes the spring and summer for Auriemma to analyze and reload his roster.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 3 Apr. 2022
  • But look for Georgia to reload and be up for the challenge of making history with a threepeat.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • With Hall and Leota, who combined for 25 sacks the last two seasons, off to the pros, Auburn sought to reload its edge-rusher depth heading into Freeze’s first year at the helm.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 2 May 2023
  • But by the Civil War, muskets had been replaced by rifled barrels, which took much less time to reload and were more accurate.
    Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The gunman killed the first person in the entryway of the club, then shot at bartenders and bar patrons before turning to the dance floor, pausing to reload the magazine of the rifle.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 18 June 2024

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