How to Use rearrange in a Sentence
rearrange
verb-
My job was to rearrange the windows and help dust the shelves.
— Glamour, 8 Dec. 2022 -
The Tampa Bay Rays rearranged the cast members a bit, but the end of the show was just as big of a smash.
— Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023 -
There's always a way to take sound from a record and kind of rearrange it.
— Shelby Stewart, Chron, 12 Apr. 2021 -
He’s had to deal with so much attention, the Dodgers have had to rearrange the press box to fit all the media.
— Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024 -
Our contest to rearrange the words in a movie title and describe the new movie.
— Pat Myers, Washington Post, 26 May 2022 -
Gave me time to clean inside and rearrange and even edit a bit.
— Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Once everything was just right, the sun burst out and Turner had to rearrange the whole set-up.
— Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 26 June 2024 -
The agency is acting like a bull in a china shop trying to rearrange the shelves.
— Christopher Mohr, Orange County Register, 4 June 2024 -
Parents have been forced to rearrange their schedules to care for kids at home.
— Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 23 Sep. 2021 -
But why this faith that rearranging the words or frames would rearrange or change the world?
— Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023 -
But later in the day, the folding chairs were rearranged into a message of hope.
— Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024 -
Be patient with the teachers who are trying to rearrange their lives and teaching style on the fly.
— Claire Gillespie, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2020 -
All of the furniture and supplies were child-sized so that the pupils could easily move about and rearrange the room.
— Barbara Spindel, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022 -
The trunk can be rearranged to act out three iconic scenes from the movies, and kids can customize the trunk with the Hogwarts house of their choosing.
— Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 2 Sep. 2023 -
In Week 1489 the Empress asked you to rearrange the words in a movie title to make a new one (punctuation could be changed).
— Pat Myers, Washington Post, 16 June 2022 -
One day around 2011, Tom returned to his City Heights home to find the furniture rearranged.
— Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023 -
Sabo says Wagener convinced the band to rearrange the song.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 Mar. 2023 -
Some of them rearrange tables to form a single one that takes up almost the entire room; others go to the kitchen to lend a hand.
— Oscar Espinosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2024 -
The diocese also plans to rearrange altars and other items to free up space for people to move around, per the Times.
— Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021 -
But no one gets it quite as bad as Olivia, who is discovered in the shower using a piece of glass to rearrange her face.
— Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020 -
Since then, the networks and studios have had to rearrange release dates to reflect the hiatus.
— Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023 -
As far as a kid is concerned, a father can do anything, even rearrange the heavens to give one of his children more time in the sun.
— Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024 -
On Sunday, my sister-in-law called to rearrange the location of our New Year’s lunch.
— Elizabeth Wong, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023 -
Even from about 40 feet away, the wool tufts clearly reveal how the pony car's design cuts through and rearranges airflow at pace.
— Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2023 -
For 56 years, there was no way to separate those instruments and rearrange them across the stereo field.
— Lane Brown, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022 -
Not only that, but the team had to customize the internal wiring and rearrange the iPhone’s components to fit inside the two halves of the Razr.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022 -
Last year’s strikes have rearranged plenty on the Emmy ballot, in fact.
— Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 17 July 2024 -
Take back the free moments of your day by taking a walk or rearranging your office.
— Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2023 -
The talk about masters no longer being masters, about the order of things being rearranged, has him on edge.
— Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023 -
Changing location or rearranging your routine will give you a new lease on life.
— Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2024
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