How to Use reconstruction in a Sentence
reconstruction
noun- The police staged a reconstruction of the crime.
- They were able to determine the cause of the accident by careful reconstruction of the events leading up to it.
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During the reconstruction, the old roof tiles were reused as the new floor.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024 -
The third reconstruction is still a work in progress, Joseph writes.
— Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2022 -
Stevens died in 1868, at the height of Reconstruction, a time of great promise.
— Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023 -
Combined with the skull that was found at his tomb, the team was able to render a digital reconstruction of the ruler’s face.
— Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024 -
The images were used to make a 3D reconstruction of the Titanic.
— Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 12 July 2024 -
Breast reconstruction came kind of at the very, very, very, very end of the whole year, and getting the results that everything was all clear.
— Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2023 -
The other big reconstruction project in town figures to require more patience, and that’s even if the Spurs catch a few breaks.
— Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023 -
The bridge is surrounded by nature, which was undisturbed by the reconstruction of the bridge.
— Dylan Wickman, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024 -
The reconstruction was live streamed, playing in local bars and even on the scoreboard during a Phillies game.
— Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023 -
Major stadium reconstruction has been a common theme for schools that have made the jump from the Group of Five to the Power Five.
— Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023 -
The doctors must still insert implants into my jaw as a part of the reconstruction process.
— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2024 -
Their record in those games: 24-40. Bullpen reconstruction was a natural place to start.
— Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023 -
For any type of breast reconstruction, there are benefits, risks, and trade-offs.
— Anna Werner, CBS News, 31 May 2023 -
Nine weeks later, the final surgery is completed with the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant.
— Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Sep. 2022 -
The scale of the reconstruction effort means that some corruption is inevitable.
— WIRED, 10 July 2023 -
From there, its architects plot the reconstruction of the building.
— Justin Ling, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2023 -
Mann wants her sculpture to humanize the ancient woman in the eyes of viewers, who will soon be able to see the head and the reconstruction displayed side by side.
— Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024 -
The Berlin police crash reconstruction team responded to the scene, police said.
— Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2023 -
The department added Thursday that the Joy Road bridge had been slated for reconstruction.
— Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2024 -
That crash happened on a stretch of U.S. 52 in Hampton that has been reduced from four lanes to two — one in each direction — for road reconstruction.
— Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 30 Apr. 2024 -
The bridge's reconstruction is expected to take years and cost billions of dollars.
— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024 -
The trail, which opened in 2019, first started as a reconstruction project of coastal damage but has grown into a tangible road of the resiliency of the region.
— Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2024 -
Means, who had Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery two years ago, is hoping to pitch something close to a full season for the first time since 2021.
— Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2024 -
The defense called a crime scene reconstruction expert who said the police might have lost evidence.
— Jeffrey Collins, ajc, 23 Feb. 2023 -
An artist's reconstruction of Otodus megalodon preying on a species of whale in the Pliocene Period.
— Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022 -
But photographs of the Met’s first reconstruction in 1981 show about two dozen fragments set against a modern white plaster bowl.
— Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023 -
The new forensic images are facial reconstructions depicting the victim as both as male and female.
— Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024 -
Loomis Road Bridge has remained closed since its reconstruction began in February.
— Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2024
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