How to Use rearrange in a Sentence

rearrange

verb
Definition of rearrangenext
Synonyms for rearrangenext
  • 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
  • He’s had to deal with so much attention, the Dodgers have had to rearrange the press box to fit all the media.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Our contest to rearrange the words in a movie title and describe the new movie.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • To rearrange them: Long-press on the home screen until the icons and widgets start to wiggle.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Be patient with the teachers who are trying to rearrange their lives and teaching style on the fly.
    — Claire Gillespie, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2020
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • The diocese also plans to rearrange altars and other items to free up space for people to move around, per the Times.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
  • While combine numbers may rearrange this list, here’s a look at the likely Horned Frog draft picks.
    — Grant McGalliard, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Since then, the networks and studios have had to rearrange release dates to reflect the hiatus.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
  • As far as a kid is concerned, a father can do anything, even rearrange the heavens to give one of his children more time in the sun.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
  • On Sunday, my sister-in-law called to rearrange the location of our New Year’s lunch.
    — Elizabeth Wong, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Even from about 40 feet away, the wool tufts clearly reveal how the pony car's design cuts through and rearranges airflow at pace.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2023
  • For 56 years, there was no way to separate those instruments and rearrange them across the stereo field.
    — Lane Brown, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Not only that, but the team had to customize the internal wiring and rearrange the iPhone’s components to fit inside the two halves of the Razr.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But there are other dangers lurking in the forests that rearrange themselves at night, rivers with slumbering dragons waiting beneath the water, and shapeshifting beasts out for blood.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Apple has added Bluetooth mouse support and the ability to rearrange apps on the homescreen, which were strictly laid out in alphabetical order before.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2024

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