How to Use retread in a Sentence

retread

1 of 2 verb

• Time and again, retread White coaches fail in one city and simply prance across to the next.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
• The bias ply is easier to retread while the radial is lighter.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2017
• And don’t worry about the movie retreading the same ground Johnny Depp besmirched — the film is rumored to be a prequel of some kind.
  — Ben Meyerson, RedEye Chicago, 15 June 2018
• There’s no time wasted when productions choose to film in Illinois, and no need to retread the same locations.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the commercial tire market, retreaded tires account for half of all truck tires.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 19 June 2018
• When dusk approaches in Montana, the searchers start packing up, but Kimberly retreads ground along the creek.
  — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, 10 June 2019
• Philly had hosted Bridges for a private workout and retreaded Smith for two group workouts.
  — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 23 June 2018
• In the years since, he’s kept trying new things, even as many other artists have gotten stuck retreading tired formulas.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
• But Miller’s film does a lot more than just retread familiar history.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 17 July 2019
• Many genres of music have begun to retread past sounds and aesthetics.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021
• This column has already delved into the diabolical doll dance moves that the film’s trailer inspired, and there’s no need to retread that angle here.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2022
• The Deminer falls short: the film is solid, topical, dutiful, but always content to retread well-trodden turf.
  — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2017
• Furthermore, many arguments for repealing the $600 boost retread the old stereotype of a jobless worker on the government dole.
  — CNN, 8 July 2020
• After last year’s delightful leap forward, the show now appears to be stuck in limbo, hitting a reset button in its first two episodes and then investing in new plots that retread old ground.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• But much of the evidence also retreaded or expanded on ground covered last summer when the first preliminary hearing was held for 18 members.
  — Susan Snyder, Philly.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• Crist, 66, is a party-switching, baggage-laden retread more disliked by Floridians than DeSantis.
  — Time, 25 Sep. 2022
• Johnson's reticence to retread such unflattering ground was understandable, but what was far more striking was the ease with which the public, the MPs who'd resigned in fury and the candidates vying to replace him as leader abandoned the story too.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 16 July 2022
• Every character from the box-office-dominating Disney classic has returned to retread every plot point and sing every familiar, chart-topping song.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 July 2019
• And instead of ending its case with explosive testimony or a final bit of evidence, the prosecution chose to retread over much of the case with Mr. Mohl, a sort of anti-climactic finish to weeks of evidence that never really had a cinematic moment.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• The demonstrations retread familiar territory for Google, after thousands of workers signed a letter in 2018 condemning a Pentagon drone surveillance contract, Project Maven.
  — WIRED, 11 Sep. 2022
• Time and again, retread White coaches fail in one city and simply prance across to the next.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
• The bias ply is easier to retread while the radial is lighter.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2017
• And don’t worry about the movie retreading the same ground Johnny Depp besmirched — the film is rumored to be a prequel of some kind.
  — Ben Meyerson, RedEye Chicago, 15 June 2018
• There’s no time wasted when productions choose to film in Illinois, and no need to retread the same locations.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the commercial tire market, retreaded tires account for half of all truck tires.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 19 June 2018
• When dusk approaches in Montana, the searchers start packing up, but Kimberly retreads ground along the creek.
  — Eric Ogden, Marie Claire, 10 June 2019
• Philly had hosted Bridges for a private workout and retreaded Smith for two group workouts.
  — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 23 June 2018
• In the years since, he’s kept trying new things, even as many other artists have gotten stuck retreading tired formulas.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
• But Miller’s film does a lot more than just retread familiar history.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 17 July 2019
• Many genres of music have begun to retread past sounds and aesthetics.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2021

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retread

2 of 2 noun

• The show is just another TV sitcom retread.
• Only the retreads and the riff-raff and the hard-core dopies are out now.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• The Browns passed on the QB class, deciding to ride out the season with a retread.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 1 May 2018
• Call it a dressed up retread of the last GOP health care plan, or simply a wolf in sheep's clothing.
  — Russell Blair, courant.com, 30 June 2017
• Sign up The idea is a retread at the federal level as well.
  — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 11 June 2023
• Yes, there are some retreads and some has-beens in the starting line-up, but there are some amazing prospects down on the farm.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 21 June 2017
• The Senate sequel to the House bill process is playing out like the most disciplined scene-by-scene retread since Home Alone 2.
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 22 June 2017
• Don’t call them retreads, these are vital in-your-face live performances.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• Viewers will hope for more originals this fall, but next season will be heavy on retreads.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 June 2017
• Instead, although the film's well-made — with snazzy period clothing and a vivid urban backdrop for the chases and fights — the plot's a retread.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Though that premise may sound familiar, this is no retread of wholesome Hallmark fare.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• Her love of soul music is more than just a retread of contemporary throwback trends.
  — chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• The Braves don’t plan to rely on retreads much longer, but the ability to scrounge should never be underrated.
  — Mark Bradley, ajc, 26 June 2017
• The less devoted might find the meta-comedy a tired retread, prompting more eyerolls than laughs.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• Or, maybe pro sports tend to turn into coaching carousels of retreads, and the Bucks were just ready, after seeing potential in Griffin, to start fresh.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
• In a time of distress and isolation, when meals had become a retread of the old and familiar, that touch of heat was a small salvation: a flicker in the pulse, a smack of the jaw, a call back to life.
  — Ligaya Mishan Patricia Heal Leilin Lopez-Toledo, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• The second and third seasons proved the point – each successive round was a retread of the first, the plot running on a treadmill, with more fake-out deaths and lots of yelling from Jim Hopper (David Harbour).
  — James Hibberd, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• The lowest moments on Paradise felt like a retread of Born to Die, with the same musical elements shuffled around.
  — Richard S. He, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019
• And while many of those options are just carried over from the last game, the eventual introduction of a new spear weapon midway through the game helps the system to not feel like a mere retread.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
• The attendees were in store for a retread of stump speeches—abbreviated to five minutes—that many of them had seen a handful of times at town halls.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
• What Watts has done here is more captivating than another retread about the persistence of a crook’s dream.
  — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2017
• Strapped for ideas, the federation hired retread Bruce Arena.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2019
• But after a slow start, The Way of Water manages to repeat that formula without being a tired retread.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2022
• This is a retread of her last Update appearance, which is a bit disappointing.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• Since then, Swift has rolled these passion-project retreads into their own backtracking pop culture events.
  — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 7 July 2023
• The 2020 Democrats are a party of kooks and retreads and charlatans, now reduced to hoping for a pandemic of the coronavirus to give them any room to attack the incumbent.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• There’s a kid named Podcast who has a podcast, and the little dude’s not even close to being the most unimaginative aspect of this frustrating retread.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
• Foles was the quintessential NFL retread, bouncing around three teams in his first five years, never able to establish himself as a bona fide starter.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2018
• The success of the retreads has also had a halo effect for Nokia smartphones, largely by reminding people that the Nokia brand, well, still exists.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
• Much of Shadowkeep's storyline is a retread of familiar locales and foes.
  — Wired, 3 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024