How to Use reenact in a Sentence

reenact

verb
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  • The group reenacted a famous American Civil War battle.
  • Here’s how the Battle of Dominguez Hills was won and lost — and how it will be reenacted.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • That sets the stage for Eleanor to recall, and Harris to reenact, episodes from the first lady’s past.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • There’s a couple reenacting the Jewel on Rann in the back.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Shofar is the call that reenacts the moment of creation.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • As a clip of the scene starts playing, Lohan and Quaid reenact it in real time.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 20 July 2020
  • The band rocked out, as kids frolicked and adult reenacted their favorite moves of hair bands from the 80s.
    — Quoron Walker, Courant Community, 11 July 2018
  • Why, procure a couple of pig carcasses and reenact the scene, of course!
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2014
  • The longtime friends and on-screen costars reunited to reenact the famous lift from the 1987 film Dirty Dancing.
    — Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The burial of Christ was reenacted by placing a cloth shroud in a carved wooden tomb.
    — Joe Songer, AL.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Presumably the old sword had lost some of its magic, for no doubt that once again the play will soon be reenacted.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Can’t wait to see all of this reenacted in the upcoming Lifetime movie.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Even the swallowing of the armies of Pharaoh is reenacted, though without much cohesion to the plot.
    — Titus Techera, National Review, 29 July 2017
  • For Mother’s Day in 2020, Quincy reenacted some stills from the show in a silly post.
    — Tamara Palmer, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • Fans have been making pilgrimages to a stairway in the Bronx to reenact the scene in which Fleck does a high-kicking dance down those steps.
    — Josh Rottenberg, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Not to mention Foxy reenacting a scene from Cinderella in the video.
    — R29 Unbothered, refinery29.com, 11 July 2023
  • The President may reenact the ban on bringing those goodies back as well.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 31 May 2017
  • In the police interview, Drejka got down on the ground to reenact the moments of the fatal shooting.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 23 Aug. 2019
  • After a broadcast, Stockdell would reenact the game with a neighbor kid and a wiffle bat and ball.
    — April Wallace, Arkansas Online, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The news didn’t quite reach my poodle and two cats that sleep on our bed and reenact Wrestlemania every night.
    — Wendi Aarons, Flow Space, 13 June 2024
  • Charlie and Harry plan to fly to meet the buyer and reenact their viral video in person one more time.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 22 May 2021
  • Thompson, along with friends, appeared to reenact the shooting.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The show transitions to a theater where the sisters reenact their cheeky vision of Drew and Jonathan's journey to fame.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 28 Feb. 2020
  • On the playing fields in Nagrig, children take it in turns to reenact Salah's latest efforts on the field their hero helped build.
    — James Masters, Mary Rogers and Housam Ahmed, CNN, 1 May 2018
  • Though Williamson drew inspiration from the Gainesville murders, Scream doesn’t reenact the crimes.
    — Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The oath-taking and pinning of the chief’s four stars were reenacted Thursday in front of about 600 spectators.
    — Cindy Chang, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
  • In the second episode, actors reenact young Hitler’s obsession with his niece Geli Raubel in the early 1930s.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • The film’s fans were delighted to see some of their favorite scenes reenacted with E.T. and Elliot’s kids.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • This wasn’t a band of survivors reenacting their once-greatness.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 July 2019
  • Most evil move: Killing a woman in a bathtub as a way of reenacting a childhood trauma.
    — and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 25 June 2024

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