How to Use orchestrate in a Sentence

orchestrate

verb
Definition of orchestratenext
Synonyms for orchestratenext
  • It's still unclear who was responsible for orchestrating the attack.
  • Thompson didn’t just orchestrate some of the best moments in franchise history, but in league history.
    — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
  • And Disney orchestrated a marketing campaign that stayed on message and resonated with moviegoers around the globe.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2024
  • This plan was orchestrated by McCarthy as a way of getting more bang for the bucks spent on original series for Showtime and Paramount+.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 June 2024
  • Police orchestrated a three-way phone call between Shires and the mother, and the social worker acknowledged the illicit relationship.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 28 June 2024
  • There’s the artist and the subject and someone orchestrating the whole thing.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Ochs’s job will be orchestrating a comeback for the brand, best known for its bandage dresses.
    — Ezreen Benissan, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • Sarah and William are now set to be married in a ceremony orchestrated by Eliza in the coming weeks.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The post included a sweet video of King, 69, and her good friend Oprah Winfrey orchestrating the moment!
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Now, there’s the optimist’s view: The Rangers, with a 4-3 record against Toronto and Cleveland, orchestrated a winning road trip.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The Devil is listening, and decides to orchestrate a series of events.
    — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
  • For those of us who lack screenwriters to orchestrate our evening, a decent airport hotel is always the first choice.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Buzbee portrayed the impeachment as a plot orchestrated by an old guard of GOP rivals.
    — Paul J. Weber and Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But the idea there is some master plan being orchestrated by the great Democrat puppet masters is garbage.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Not that their grand scheme involved orchestrating their own debuts as singers in a theater around the corner from Covent Garden.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Every family takes deep pride in their own unique way of orchestrating the feast.
    — Dan Pelosi, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • It's been orchestrated by, uh, designers in both Australia and New Zealand, incorporating the colors of the land and the ocean, the forest, the deserts.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In Episode 2, her missions to push the heights-phobic Will off the Grand Canyon or orchestrate his drowning on a whitewater rapids excursion have both been thwarted.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In 1965, Andy Warhol set out to write a novel—or, more accurately, to orchestrate a novel’s creation.
    — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • Other over-the-counter companies also were swept into the pump-and-dump schemes orchestrated by Padilla, according to the SEC.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • The hospital claimed Bundy and Rodriguez orchestrated a smear campaign against it.
    — Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Sinema and Tillis had already tried to orchestrate an immigration deal late the previous year, but the talks collapsed.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • What matters most is that the entity gets funding authority and the power to orchestrate research and trials across the NIH.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Dessner orchestrated the track and co-produced it with Ron Aniello.
    — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The Utes orchestrated a second 14-point comeback in the Pac-12 championship game two months later as Williams left because of a hamstring injury.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Tarrio wasn’t in Washington, D.C., that day but is accused of orchestrating an attack from afar.
    — Michael Kunzelman and Lindsay Whitehurst, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The second is that detectives came to believe that Ashley Butts had orchestrated the attack.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Others say that these forces may be orchestrating some of the deadly attacks themselves, to scare foragers into bringing them along on future trips.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2023
  • And then there’s the family’s reality TV empire that Jenner has orchestrated.
    — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
  • This year the 50 full-time Pyro Show employees are spread across the country setting up firework shows in stadiums, parks, beach fronts and barges, but most people orchestrating the shows are part-time workers.
    — Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 4 July 2024

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