How to Use refashion in a Sentence

refashion

verb
  • Bloom is the one left to pick up the pieces and refashion the Red Sox into a winner.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Years later, Queen Camilla would pull the piece from the archives and refashion it to her taste.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • With the full Moon of the 9th in Aries, put new options under the microscope and refashion your future.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Last night, Taylor Swift tore down the night sky and refashioned it into a cocktail dress.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Since 1845, when Florida became a state, man has been refashioning the glades, chiefly, to dry, build on, farm and make money off the land, some of the most fertile in the world.
    Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Its owners had hired a young Paris architect, Pierre Barbe, to refashion the interior, which had been carved up over the years.
    William Middleton, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2018
  • If history is a guide, the Rams can refashion the line one of two ways: veteran players or rookies.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The Greene Street property sat vacant, as Bell worked to refashion it inside.
    Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • The old Replays Bar & Grill has been refashioned into a private entrance.
    Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 17 May 2018
  • With Om Shanti Om, Khan hoped to refashion himself in a sexier mold.
    Thomas Rogers, Bloomberg.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Years of preparations to unseat Wynne’s Liberals must now be refashioned ahead of the election on June 7.
    Bloomberg.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Xi is trying to assert his own rules and norms of diplomacy to refashion the global order and place China at its center.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Some refashioned Pocari Sweat’s Chinese name (寶礦力) with a homonym, rebranding it as a drink of the resistance (寶抗力), for example.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 11 July 2019
  • Ledford wants to refashion this former mine into a new kind of profitable venture.
    Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • Stitch Fix, the online styling service and apparel seller, is trying to refashion its own look.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Some of the exhibits have been used before, some partially refashioned and some are brand new, the work of 19 artists the company brought from China, said president George Zhao.
    Nancy Brachey, charlotteobserver, 5 Sep. 2017
  • But perhaps the most remarkable example of how Stevens and his players have refashioned their team was the game put up by Semi Ojeleye.
    Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • This classic piece can be refashioned into a elegant dresser with a few strokes of a brush or some easy-install hardware—here are our fave makeovers.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 21 Nov. 2019
  • At issue would have been Mr Zuckerberg’s plans to refashion the social-media firm’s share-ownership structure more in his favour.
    The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Mr Bekker refashioned it around new media, expanding its pay-TV business across Africa and investing in budding tech firms around the world.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Britain’s turn from its welfare state in the face of yawning budget deficits is a conspicuous indicator that the world has been refashioned by the crisis.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 28 May 2018
  • Now, the love story has been refashioned into a 14-episode Netflix series by lead writer Nicole Taylor that was released Feb. 8.
    Yvonne Villarreal, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The ’90s anchor the Ekroth collection, while the ’80s influence the designer’s refashioning of Terinit.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The newspaper building itself was refashioned, as the walls separating the third-floor Union and Tribune newsrooms were knocked down.
    Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Why this dusty, 19th-century ditty needed to be refashioned this way is unclear.
    Mark Kennedy, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
  • In his quest to soak up traffic from other rival apps, Musk has completely refashioned Twitter.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • At the fourth stage, those hydrocarbons are combined with more H2 and refashioned into the mix of hydrocarbons in gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Now, the love story has been refashioned into a 14-episode Netflix series by lead writer Nicole Taylor that was released Thursday.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The shipping container – a remnant from Covid-19 used by hospitals for extra space – was refashioned by the city as part of a project in hopes of helping many of the city’s chronically unhoused.
    Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
  • After the natural resources were stripped and the railway was rerouted, the area languished until the 1960s, when town leaders got the idea to refashion the town into one that would equal its Bavarian setting.
    Shelby Knick, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021

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