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
  • To rearrange them: Long-press on the home screen until the icons and widgets start to wiggle.
    Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • While combine numbers may rearrange this list, here’s a look at the likely Horned Frog draft picks.
    Grant McGalliard, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • But there are other dangers lurking in the forests that rearrange themselves at night, rivers with slumbering dragons waiting beneath the water, and shapeshifting beasts out for blood.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Apple has added Bluetooth mouse support and the ability to rearrange apps on the homescreen, which were strictly laid out in alphabetical order before.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2024

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