How to Use reseat in a Sentence

reseat

verb
Definition of reseatnext
  • Remove the wheel and reseat it, and the problem could easily get worse.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2018
  • Find an empty seat or ask a flight attendant to reseat you.
    — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Flight attendants reseated her in the front of the plane, and one crew member questioned Rezapour.
    — Gene Johnson, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • As all this happened before the plane took off, flight attendants could have reseated the man or escorted him off the plane.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Crews swept up debris in areas that had flooded, picked up fallen tree limbs and reseated manhole covers that had been pushed about by the flood waters.
    — Emily Brindley, courant.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Instead of reseating him, the attendant called the airport police, who ushered Palomino and the aggressive passenger off the plane.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2019
  • At some points the Seattle Symphony Chorale could have used a little more cuing, however, particularly when the singers were required to rise and then reseat again.
    — Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
  • And, combined with the through-axle design mentioned above, reseating the wheel always brings everything back into perfect alignment.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2018
  • Upholding the defense’s strikes, Judge Timothy Walmsley echoed that the court cannot reseat jurors because of a racial imbalance.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The incident caused a disruption in the cabin, with crew having to reseat surrounding passengers.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • The girl was immediately reseated in another area of the airplane.
    — Elliott Hester, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • But any passenger can politely request gate agents to potentially reseat them in an empty (or less full) aisle prior to boarding their flight.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 8 June 2021
  • Luh was reseated, and believed the airline would contact the authorities regarding her complaint, the News Sentinel reports.
    — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Much to my disappointment, call buttons started going off as people requested to be reseated.
    — WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
  • American Airlines and United Airlines have both started reseating customers to create social distance when seats are available.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2020

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