How to Use reconstruct in a Sentence

reconstruct

verb

• They are attempting to reconstruct the events that led to the bridge's collapse.
• Archaeologists were able to reconstruct most of the ancient village from their findings.
• After the earthquake, many houses needed to be reconstructed.
• The team reconstructed the genomes of viruses frozen in the Guliya Glacier.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• The work to reconstruct the inside shoulder of I-40 is part of the 30 Crossing project.
  — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 14 July 2022
• The city plans to demolish and reconstruct the east side of the span next year, followed by the west side in 2024.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
• Once the boat is on land, the team will reconstruct it—and begin studying it up close.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
• At the more invasive end of the spectrum, there is a surgery to reconstruct the jaw.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The church, built in 1889, had to be reconstructed but the organ survived.
  — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, the European Union and the Gulf states were always ready to foot the bill to reconstruct the ruins in the strip.
  — Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
• And so Williams set about reconstructing the history of the Moon Trees.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• Waukegan’s $12 million portion will reconstruct a dock wall along the north portion of the harbor.
  — Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• Collier Lodge, a hunting lodge built on the site in 1898, was dismantled last spring with plans to reconstruct it in the future.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
• His preference would be to move the whole city to somewhere nearby and reconstruct it.
  — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
• Doctors took tissue from his belly to reconstruct a chunk of flesh the dog tore from his forearm.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 3 Feb. 2022
• That $54 million project is part of the city's long-term plan, which also includes the work already done to reconstruct the Market Street spokes.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2022
• To do this, the researchers checked the lake samples for markers that could help reconstruct what the climate may have been like at the settlement.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
• Nurse decided to have part of her quad tendon used to reconstruct her ACL.
  — Alexa Juliana Ard, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
• Surgeons also removed a part of his leg bone in order to reconstruct a new jaw with it.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• Even many buildings that survived will have to be torn down and reconstructed.
  — David Faris, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023
• The board agreed to set aside $10 million to redesign and reconstruct the air conditioning plants.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• To reconstruct the brains of ancient birds, researchers need fossils that preserve the hollow space where a brain would sit: the braincase.
  — Bytess Joosse, science.org, 27 Sep. 2022
• Then, if the conditions are right, the system can reconstruct the secret.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
• In the past, scholars had tried to reconstruct missing words and identify where in the larger text these pieces belonged.
  — Chanan Tigay, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
• With all due respect to Margaret Chase Smith, the path doesn’t lie in trying to reconstruct the old order that helped open the door to our current crisis.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Their work reconstructed the disaster, from the volume of falling ice and rock, to the trajectory of the avalanche.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
• Her team took skin samples from the dog's belly and reconstructed its genome -- the complete set of genes in an organism.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
• The project proposes to reconstruct the bridge to address these concerns.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
• Tissue was taken from the skin on her back to reconstruct her breast, and one of her latissimus dorsi was rotated.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• To guide their efforts, the team wanted to reconstruct the former extent of oyster populations.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024