How to Use afresh in a Sentence

afresh

adverb
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  • But why doesn’t the bulbul just leave the nest and start afresh, rather than stay and raise someone else’s chick?
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2011
  • The 37-year-old left his London finance job and moved to Milan to start afresh.
    — Grace Cook, WSJ, 26 May 2023
  • After this catharsis, Renia felt able to move on, to start afresh.
    — Judy Batalion, Time, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The routine began afresh: my call, his mother’s response, his exit through the gates, the silent walk to school.
    — Ishion Hutchinson, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Teresa Cheng, Hong Kong’s justice secretary, said the process would start afresh next year.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
  • His original fig trees had all died, requiring him to start afresh.
    — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Hoi An’s quaint historic charm will appeal to digital nomads wanting to start afresh in a unique corner of the world.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2024
  • The mystic feelings that users like Cote report — such as the loss of a sense of self, and the ability to set aside the past or think afresh about the future — are thought to arise from this reset of the DMN.
    — Steve Volk, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
  • These existing sequences matched those that Li and Wang produced afresh.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2011
  • Fires particularly threaten those who lack the means to pick up their lives and start afresh elsewhere.
    — Lydia Millet, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Still, the uplifting news is that Deutchman’s film will screen at the Paris, the most graceful of Rugoff’s theatres, which has recently opened afresh.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2021
  • And it therefore couldn’t be said that new or dangerous variants weren’t landing on our shores or emerging here afresh.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Pearce showed me many spicebush specimens that were browsed but are now suckering afresh.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • Vailea said the people of Mango Island are split, with some wanting to return and others happy to start life afresh in Nuku’alofa or elsewhere.
    — Nick Perry, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Vailea said the people of Mango Island are split, with some wanting to return and others happy to start life afresh in Nuku'alofa or elsewhere.
    — Nick Perry, ajc, 24 Feb. 2022
  • After nuclear war decimates our planet, Earthlings pack it in and head to Mars to start afresh.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The flower can be squared endlessly, and each variation conveys afresh the joy of invention.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • All of them were familiar, and yet, as performed by the chorus and the superb guest soprano Jacqueline Echols, even the most frequently sung hit home afresh.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 5 June 2022
  • The Biden Defense Department rightly decided Tuesday to scrap the contract and start afresh.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 July 2021
  • Perkins-Valdez has done a fine job of building a structure and scaffolding that will not only endure but also bear the weight of future writers yearning to bring the past to readers afresh.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • And the kids are starting afresh at a school dedicated to immigrants and English language learners.
    — Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Faced with the choice of rebuilding or starting afresh, more homeowners than ever before are choosing to cut their losses.
    — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Still, using the new year to begin afresh spiritually as well as in other ways is part of becoming a better person all around, notes Fr.
    — Cathi Douglas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Jupiter’s entrance into Taurus on the 16th promises happy developments in close relationships, and the new Moon of the 19th is the time to do some emotional page-turning and start afresh.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 May 2023
  • But this amplifies the problem staged afresh with every book, that of self-making, self-display: sculpting the self into a glittering object for the Other to cherish or stomp to shards.
    — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Emerging competition has pushed marketing to look beyond the obvious and paved the way to learn afresh and experiment with things.
    — Neha Gianchand, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • In these films, female protagonists are shown afresh, as living in a hostile world that underestimates them again and again.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Even after those reviews are done and if Interior allows development, green groups will still be able to challenge the reviews and leases afresh in court.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Starting off afresh, moving from Hanover to Berlin, the couple stage a farewell dinner that spirals out of control, uncovering hidden fears, secret longings and life-lies.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 7 Aug. 2022
  • While Etchells is asking for a more reflective relationship with our screens, Haidt implores governments—and parents—to tear up our current approaches and start afresh.
    — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2024

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