Example Sentences

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A man was trying to put up some trash bins that had been knocked over and restring police tape to form a perimeter.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

When it was suggested he could perhaps restring one of the donated guitars so it would be playable for a left-hander, Deacon smiled.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

A retired friend emailed me this week about his old 1961 baseball glove and whether to restring it, make it healthy and whole again.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

After that contract was withdrawn, Cobra, a subsidiary of Mammoth Energy, became one of three stateside companies to win federal money to replace transmission towers, erect power poles and restring power lines across Puerto Rico.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2019

And the cord of raw hide was well-seasoned, stout and tough; though it had a troublesome trick of stretching, which forced Grôm to restring it many times before all the stretch was out of it.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir