How to Use orchestrate in a Sentence

orchestrate

verb
  • A strike was orchestrated by union members.
  • She orchestrated the entire event.
  • It's still unclear who was responsible for orchestrating the attack.
  • He recently orchestrated a musical.
  • There’s the artist and the subject and someone orchestrating the whole thing.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But there is no proof that it’s been orchestrated this way.
    Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • There’s no reason why Ellen would’ve been that weird with the knife other than just to orchestrate a scare for the viewers.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The soundtrack dropped a month before the film, an odd way to orchestrate a release, but a canny move in this case.
    Travis Atria, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2022
  • They are accused of using the app to orchestrate the assaults, requiring videos of the beatings as proof.
    USA Today, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Both Iran and Hamas have accused Israel of orchestrating the killing.
    Amin Khodadadi, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Vesco now knows that his arrest was orchestrated by his old friend Red.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Anchors and their agents were warned not to spill any details, so Licht could orchestrate their release.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Each episode, the challenges were based around a new theme for the houses to orchestrate their performances and to inspire their custom looks and glam.
    Greg Emmanuel, Essence, 10 June 2022
  • The fact that Elon Musk was able to orchestrate a buy-out like that, and the Twitter board was willing to go along with it, is still the biggest news in tech and will remain that way for months.
    John Brandon, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The 61-page filing is part of an attempt to gain access to emails from lawyer John Eastman, who the committee says helped Trump orchestrate the plot.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Ochs’s job will be orchestrating a comeback for the brand, best known for its bandage dresses.
    Ezreen Benissan, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • Sarah and William are now set to be married in a ceremony orchestrated by Eliza in the coming weeks.
    Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Whether games between family and friends are as easy to orchestrate in VR will be the big question for the murder mystery game.
    Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The post included a sweet video of King, 69, and her good friend Oprah Winfrey orchestrating the moment!
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Now, there’s the optimist’s view: The Rangers, with a 4-3 record against Toronto and Cleveland, orchestrated a winning road trip.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Did the Bucks orchestrate this with their late-season decision to rest players?
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The Devil is listening, and decides to orchestrate a series of events.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
  • For those of us who lack screenwriters to orchestrate our evening, a decent airport hotel is always the first choice.
    Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Buzbee portrayed the impeachment as a plot orchestrated by an old guard of GOP rivals.
    Paul J. Weber and Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Both traits are crucial in a 20-horse field, and, if Rosario can orchestrate a balanced run, trainer Steve Asmussen will go home with his first Derby win.
    Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2022
  • But the idea there is some master plan being orchestrated by the great Democrat puppet masters is garbage.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Video of the incident raised questions about whether the assault was orchestrated.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • One of the biggest reasons that spinal injuries lead to paralysis in the legs is an interruption to the signals from our brain to the nerve cells in the spine that orchestrate walking.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Not that their grand scheme involved orchestrating their own debuts as singers in a theater around the corner from Covent Garden.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Over the last week, the Sikh Society has orchestrated a communitywide show of support.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024

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