How to Use rename in a Sentence

rename

verb

• That changed when the yacht was sold in 2017 and renamed Nadan.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2023
• The center is more than two decades old — and has been renamed six times.
  — Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2024
• The team was renamed the RiverBats in 1999, and that was shortened to the Bats three years later.
  — Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 9 June 2023
• Fort Hood is among nine Army bases that will be renamed this year.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 8 May 2023
• Instead, the Bureau has renamed the event, Jeep the Yoop, which is scheduled for May 10-12.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2024
• In response, the shelter renamed one of their pups after the Stranger Things star.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• The trek has been renamed the Good Times tour, also in honor of Cattermole, who sang lead on the group’s 2001 song of the same name.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• The most recent chapel, rebuilt after a fire in 1894 and renamed Waiola, burned to the ground this week.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023
• The welcome includes renaming more than 30 streets around town for the singer's top hits.
  — Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2024
• Tap it to see a battery life readout for the headphones and an option to rename them.
  — PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
• Rachael and Larry had to use AuctionWeb — soon to be renamed eBay — to make ends meet.
  — Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• All the panelists said the state should consider renaming the Key Bridge.
  — Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
• The idea was floated years ago and dropped, but the time has come to rename the third U.S. Open stadium, the Grandstand, after her.
  — Patrick Sauer, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• Her body of work reveals how the injuries of the past can be renamed and reshaped by those who keep on living.
  — Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• About 15 months ago, Mr. Zuckerberg went all in on the metaverse and renamed the company Meta.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• In 1914, crews enlarged the central section—building it in the Beaux-Arts style—and renamed the venue Union Station.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2024
• Of course there will be pushback when things are renamed, but all too often this pushback is based on bias.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 June 2024
• The decision to rename the airport in his honor has met with anger from some Italians.
  — Catherine Nicholls, CNN, 8 July 2024
• In April of this year, the school in Barbados that Chisholm attended as a child was renamed in her honor.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 29 Nov. 2023
• The fight over the San Francisco school district’s effort to rename 44 schools isn’t over yet even though the school board has reversed course.
  — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
• In late 2020, it was renamed the County Fire Department.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• The town of Grasse, near Cannes, is famous for its flowers—one of which was renamed for the monarch—as well as its perfume industry.
  — Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
• In ten years in Congress, the only bill Amash sponsored that became law was to rename a post office.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• The original fruit flavors changed when the candy was renamed to Starburst in 1998.
  — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The bridge was renamed to honor the popular Kansas City sports legend in 2016.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Plans are in the works to rename a Leon Creek trailhead after a parks advocate who died from the coronavirus.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Feb. 2021
• The town had only one hotel, since renamed after Mr. Steele.
  — Catherine Porter Andrea Mantovani, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• Known as Bay Apartments, the new owner plans to rename it Cypress Crossing.
  — Kathy Jumper, al, 14 Aug. 2022
• For his part, Schumer isn’t giving up on renaming the building for McCain.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• Its name was changed after the mountain it was named for was renamed Piestewa Peak, as its previous name contained a word offensive to Native Americans.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024