How to Use realign in a Sentence

realign

verb
  • We had to realign the text to fit it on the page.
  • The car's wheels were realigned.
  • Saadi said the rows of headstones would be realigned to improve the appearance of the cemetery.
    Ken Byron, courant.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Once the campus is ready, the district plans to realign the grades for its elementary campuses from kindergarten through fifth to kindergarten through fourth.
    Vanesa Brashier, Houston Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Centralize and realign budgets so every school in Baltimore City is a great choice with money spent appropriately.
    Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • According to Hirata, only a crater of this scale could be impactful enough to realign Ganymede, regardless of where the asteroid made landfall.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
  • As the centers of gravity shift and realign, the potential for ruthlessness and betrayal seems higher than ever, especially as old secrets surface.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Its new president, Taylor Eighmy, has set up three initiatives, each with a task force, to realign university operations.
    Silvia Foster-Frau, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Her leg had been fixed the wrong way and had to be painfully realigned.
    Longreads, 22 May 2018
  • This surgery is performed on the muscles to realign the eye.
    Dagny Zhu, Verywell Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • New and full moons realign on or near the same dates once every 19 years.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
  • It’s about young love and the little acts of chance and villainy that realign lives.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2020
  • In one transfer the world has moved on, and the plates are beginning to realign.
    Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 10 July 2018
  • There are big moving pieces here that will need time and thought to realign.
    Todd Hixon, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Culvert curve: Crews are realigning the sharp curve in the road near the culvert.
    oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
  • While the honing steel realigns those jagged edges, the results may not last very long.
    Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 26 June 2023
  • If there are, adjust the bolts to realign the blade and restore the cutting power of your tool.
    Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But be sure, MLB needs to realign and because of that will expand to 32 teams at some point.
    John Canzano, OregonLive.com, 5 June 2018
  • Holding a torch for someone and want to see if your stars have realigned?
    Kyle Thomas, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2024
  • That would be a shift that could realign politics for years to come.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The creek, which flows along the eastern perimeter of the site to the San Diego River, is subject to flooding and may need to be realigned.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The new year is a good time to launch new initiatives and realign to a longer-term set of ambitious goals.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Adding to that question, has the party realigned too closely with him for that to happen?
    Julia Azari, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Crews are working to realign, widen and pave the roadway, Caltrans said in a news release.
    Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 19 July 2024
  • The procedure involves breaking the leg above the femur bone and then realigning the knee and leg.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • In 1984, the Reston Land Corp. started work to realign that road to the north to better serve new apartment buildings.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
  • As voters realigned, Buttigieg saw his vote total go up by more than 5,600 votes.
    NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020
  • The road closure will allow crews to realign the parking entrance.
    Karen Huppertz, ajc, 23 Mar. 2018
  • With the world in a decidedly strange state right now, could this be the perfect time to realign those things that matter most?
    Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Crews will be removing a set of unused railroad tracks and realigning tracks in the area that are still in use.
    oregonlive, 6 July 2023

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