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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Since then, the networks and studios have had to rearrange release dates to reflect the hiatus.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Once under way, no one wants to stop and rearrange an poor-fitting helmet.
    Joe Michaud, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Enter The Nugget, a play couch that is designed to be rearranged and repurposed as four giant foam blocks.
    Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2023
  • These were sacred texts and we were advised to read them, and then to rearrange our lives so as to bring them into compliance.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 16 Nov. 2023
  • There is an easy way to protect your privacy on your phone and rearrange your home screen by hiding your apps.
    Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Repainting the hull of the Titanic is bound to be as effective as rearranging the deck chairs on it.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • The teacher instructed the students to rearrange their desks, creating a space in the middle of the classroom.
    Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • On the inside, a modular system of cubes can be rearranged as benches, seats, a bed, sink, stove, and even a toilet.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The moveable pegs can rearrange to fit different sizes of dishware while keeping the breakables safe and chip-free.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • In situations like these, no one wants to rearrange all their gear back in their car just to drive five minutes down the road to the nearest gas station.
    Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Music arranger Courtney Swain rearranged the song to work with what the production had.
    Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023

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