How to Use reconstruct in a Sentence

reconstruct

verb
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  • They are attempting to reconstruct the events that led to the bridge's collapse.
  • Archaeologists were able to reconstruct most of the ancient village from their findings.
  • After the earthquake, many houses needed to be reconstructed.
  • In a new book, two sociologists reconstruct the lives of people who were abandoned in death.
    — Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024
  • While parts of the town were destroyed during the war, many buildings still stand and others have been reconstructed, giving the area a charming feel.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
  • The southwest corners of the intersections will be reconstructed with new curbs, curb ramps and signal equipment.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 9 Apr. 2024
  • By this time McDowell and others had reconstructed how exactly those pieces came to be there.
    — Samantha Lawler, Scientific American, 11 July 2024
  • One of those images contained code fragments that, when reconstructed, formed code for backdooring the developer device.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024
  • An agent meticulously reconstructed more than 100 pages of what appeared to be thousands of emails sent to the Potter family.
    — Katie O'Brien, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Scientists recently reconstructed a Neanderthal skull that was both flattened like a pancake and shattered into pieces.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2024
  • The city plans to demolish and reconstruct the east side of the span next year, followed by the west side in 2024.
    — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Once the boat is on land, the team will reconstruct it—and begin studying it up close.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • At the more invasive end of the spectrum, there is a surgery to reconstruct the jaw.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The church, built in 1889, had to be reconstructed but the organ survived.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the European Union and the Gulf states were always ready to foot the bill to reconstruct the ruins in the strip.
    — Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
  • And so Williams set about reconstructing the history of the Moon Trees.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Collier Lodge, a hunting lodge built on the site in 1898, was dismantled last spring with plans to reconstruct it in the future.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • Surgeons also removed a part of his leg bone in order to reconstruct a new jaw with it.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Even many buildings that survived will have to be torn down and reconstructed.
    — David Faris, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Then, if the conditions are right, the system can reconstruct the secret.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In the past, scholars had tried to reconstruct missing words and identify where in the larger text these pieces belonged.
    — Chanan Tigay, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Her team took skin samples from the dog's belly and reconstructed its genome -- the complete set of genes in an organism.
    — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The project proposes to reconstruct the bridge to address these concerns.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Frankly, the end of the season was completely reconstructed.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But how such an adaptation evolved is a challenge to reconstruct.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
  • To deal with time constraints, the team shipped the whole assemblage back to Europe and set about the painstaking task of reconstructing the ancient necklace.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Young, too, had reconstructed the Harmonist labyrinth—out of paper and ink instead of shrubbery and wood.
    — Ryan Ruby, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Forecasters, who thought Hilary might show up around 6 p.m., will reconstruct her precise path over the next couple of days.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
  • The rings helped researchers to reconstruct the fifth-century climate, identifying dry spells that may have forced the Huns to move on.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • One of their houses has been reconstructed along the walkway to the Nature Center along other structures from the village.
    — Melissa Whatley, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023

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