How to Use rearrange in a Sentence

rearrange

verb
Definition of rearrangenext
Synonyms for rearrangenext
  • But no one gets it quite as bad as Olivia, who is discovered in the shower using a piece of glass to rearrange her face.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Even after co-opting the lander’s equipment-moving robotic arm to rearrange soil and push the mole down, the team remained stymied.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2021
  • To rearrange or remove any of your apps, widgets, or web shortcuts, tap and hold on a blank area of any of your home screens until the objects on it start shaking.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Some people who prefer to store outdoor supplies inside have been trying to rearrange their mudrooms to create space.
    — Nicole Anzia, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The children are still at home, even though most child-care centers in the city have reopened, and the family has struggled to rearrange its schedule around child-care needs.
    — Robbie Whelan, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Those with school-age children also had to rearrange their work and family lives to accommodate the demands of remote learning.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The burials, once carefully arranged and rearranged, had been forgotten — until now.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 2 July 2024
  • That includes whether to rearrange other teams’ schedules to find 5-0 Ohio State an opponent for this week.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Why does listening to that language — really tuning into it — rearrange your synapses?
    — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The conferences started play at different times, have different protocols for dealing with the virus and have had to rearrange schedules on the fly...
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Transposition ciphers, by contrast, are largely relics from the past that use rules to rearrange the characters or groups of characters in the message.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Transposition ciphers rearrange messages in a wide variety of ways.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The village rests at the bottom of a valley in the Topatopa Mountains, where the skies seem to rearrange themselves into a brilliant ombré twice a day at sunrise and sunset.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Clemson winning would only rearrange the order of the current top four, with the Irish likely sliding to fourth and Ohio State climbing into third.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2020
  • My job was to rearrange the windows and help dust the shelves.
    — Glamour, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Tampa Bay Rays rearranged the cast members a bit, but the end of the show was just as big of a smash.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • There's always a way to take sound from a record and kind of rearrange it.
    — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Our contest to rearrange the words in a movie title and describe the new movie.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • Gave me time to clean inside and rearrange and even edit a bit.
    — Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Once everything was just right, the sun burst out and Turner had to rearrange the whole set-up.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 26 June 2024
  • The agency is acting like a bull in a china shop trying to rearrange the shelves.
    — Christopher Mohr, Orange County Register, 4 June 2024
  • Parents have been forced to rearrange their schedules to care for kids at home.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • But why this faith that rearranging the words or frames would rearrange or change the world?
    — Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But later in the day, the folding chairs were rearranged into a message of hope.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
  • All of the furniture and supplies were child-sized so that the pupils could easily move about and rearrange the room.
    — Barbara Spindel, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The trunk can be rearranged to act out three iconic scenes from the movies, and kids can customize the trunk with the Hogwarts house of their choosing.
    — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 2 Sep. 2023
  • In Week 1489 the Empress asked you to rearrange the words in a movie title to make a new one (punctuation could be changed).
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • One day around 2011, Tom returned to his City Heights home to find the furniture rearranged.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Sabo says Wagener convinced the band to rearrange the song.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Some of them rearrange tables to form a single one that takes up almost the entire room; others go to the kitchen to lend a hand.
    — Oscar Espinosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2024

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