How to Use reorient in a Sentence

reorient

verb
Definition of reorientnext
  • The shape of work has morphed and reoriented countless times in the past.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The piece would be easy to reorient — rotate the rod, thread it through another hole.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The justices reorient to the latest appointee and, in turn, to each other.
    — Melissa MacAya, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The longer-term question is how an event like this may reorient the town’s identity.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2022
  • For that to happen, though, Biden must reorient his agenda.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The museum plans to reorient the entrance and restore the historic South Car Works building.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
  • Now, the award for Fosse confirms that the Nobel has reoriented.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • From there, the experiment ran more or less as the Darwins’ did 150 years ago: As the researchers changed the direction of the light, the plants reoriented themselves to it.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • What Maserati needs to do is reorient itself for the connoisseur of the absurd, for the iconoclasts of the automotive world.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021
  • While some birds may have been able to reorient around the storm to stay on their migration route, tens of thousands of others were probably pushed out to sea, Dr. Lees said.
    — Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The game opens with a recap that does an adequate job of filling in the complex events of the previous game, and giving just enough context to reorient myself in the world.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Cats can reorient themselves within a couple of feet, kick-starting the process within a fraction of a second.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Instead, they're left trying to figure out the most effective way to reorient themselves while still learning from the lessons the project imparted to them.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The most vexing challenge of the project was to reorient Ponti’s design to its surroundings, which have changed considerably over the years.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The probe is set to reorient itself on October 15, which it is programmed to do multiple times a year to keep the antenna pointed at Earth.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Like his forebears and theirs, rapping was a means to reorient his trajectory.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The renovations will reorient the buildings from Royalty Row to face the freeway.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Stede try to put himself back together and both reorient themselves.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • And the fact that this is such a long game that each of these characters is facing, in terms of reorienting themselves to whatever normalcy is supposed to be.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Countries, markets, or entire industries might make a sudden shift that require the team to reorient their goals.
    — Tsedal Neeley, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The study authors suspect insects rely on the glow emanating from stars, planets and the moon to reorient themselves.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Although the future of women in hip-hop is unknown, Ladies First attempts to reorient the contributions of the women hip-hop pushed to the sidelines, in order to make a way for their future.
    — Taylor Crumpton, refinery29.com, 21 Aug. 2023
  • All hope is not lost for Voyager 2—the craft is programmed to reorient itself a few times per year, with the next reorientation scheduled for October.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The spacecraft, dubbed Serial Number 11, or SN 11, was supposed to then reorient itself, restart its engines and then touch down softly on a landing pad.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • You’ve become known nationally in the past few years as an actor, particularly as the scene-stealer, the performer who seems to reorient the work around their presence.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2023
  • For Presidential candidates looking to reorient the race, Iowa had long been an ideal place.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • If tech jobs allowed founders — mostly men — to smash up the status quo and reorient the world to their way of thinking, fashion offered megalomania on an even more primal level.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Many are using that opportunity to reorient and look for jobs, and employers, that can provide a longer-term pathway.
    — Allison Dulin Salisbury, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Falcon 9's first stage booster will reorient itself after separation and land on a drone ship stationed in the Pacific Ocean where it can be used.
    — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • One of the most important changes managers and leaders can make is to be clear on what matters up and down the pipeline—and then reorienting operations and resources around making progress toward those goals.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'reorient.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: