relight

Example Sentences

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The switches were returned to their normal inflight position, triggering automatic engine relight.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

Plans are being made to relight the cedars on Christmas Tree Lane as soon as possible, in a show of community resilience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

During its final descent, the booster’s engines did not fully relight, leading to an unexpectedly hard landing.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 14, 2024

Still, DeJear, who campaigned for Obama as a college student at Drake University in Des Moines in 2008, is optimistic she can relight the flame.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2022

She had a couple of matches she kept there for when she had to relight Mrs. Caruthers’s fireplace, on the rare occasion it went out.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland