How to Use rearrange in a Sentence

rearrange

verb
Definition of rearrangenext
Synonyms for rearrangenext
  • Chairs had been rearranged in the Spirol Gallery for the event.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 3 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The remote can be used to rearrange apps or delete them as well.
    — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • 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 night falls, the seating area can be rearranged to create a full-size bed.
    — Maggie Burch, House Beautiful, 31 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • However, one day Ruth asked me to help move and rearrange things in her house.
    — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 30 Oct. 2017
  • In the basement, Eaton rearranged some doors to ensure that one of the walls was long enough to house a wide-screen television.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Words can be pegged to the clips themselves so that if a clip is rearranged, the subtitles are arranged with it.
    — Dami Lee, The Verge, 15 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • Buildings are not like tables and chairs that can be rearranged at will.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Now a simple menu pops up, and the icon rearranging feature is dead.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
  • 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
  • In her off-hours, Bullock loves to read, listen to music and rearrange her house.
    — Ronald D. White, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • My job was basically to take the arrangements, get her vocal on it, then come back to my studio here, rearrange the song, and start adding layers to it.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • These features provide the ability to vacuum under furniture, in corners, and in other hard-to-reach places without having to rearrange the entire house in the process.
    — Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025

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