reread
verb (used with object)
to read (something) again.
was rereading
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past progressiveof reread.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“And it seems to me, when I was rereading my journals, that they are also fictions of a sort. This is not my life. It is a story I have told about my life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
And Denis O’Hare’s performance specifically stayed with me so much so, that when I was rereading the play, several of his line readings came flooding back.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2022
I was rereading my book last weekend and I really had no idea that putting all of this together in one solid package would lead to the conclusion that there is, in fact, a plot.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2018
A few months before the election, he told Michael Wolff that he was rereading “All Quiet on the Western Front,” which he considers “one of the greatest books of all time.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2018
Ishmael sat reading his father’s words in the cedar tree; he was rereading them when Hatsue, in her coat and scarf, ducked in and sat down on the moss beside him.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
