How to Use rebuild in a Sentence

rebuild

verb
  • The new owner plans to rebuild the franchise.
  • They tried to rebuild after the earthquake.
  • He rebuilt his house after it was destroyed by a fire.
  • The team is rebuilding after losing most of its top players.
  • What needs to change to rebuild that area for Democrats?
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Still, House of the Dragon has a long way to go to rebuild that trust.
    WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The job of rebuilding trust in the currency now falls to Erkan.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • LaVine has been a leader of this team for quite a while, through the dark days of the Jim Boylen rebuild to now.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The couple, who first opened the lodge in 2008, made the hard decision to rebuild.
    Adam Erace, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Reims was rebuilt in the next decade during the Art Deco age.
    Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
  • Soon after, Swaney showed up on his day off to help rebuild the house, Mitchell said.
    Blake Nelsonstaff Reporter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Out comes a record that fails and rebuilds and steps back up to the plate after a strikeout to hit a home run.
    Madelyn Dawson, SPIN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • At issue was whether the town would rebuild a stretch of one of its oldest and most scenic roads.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Later, the building was lost in a fire and rebuilt out of reclaimed wood.
    oregonlive, 13 July 2023
  • This would set the Starship launch campaign back months, at least, as the area is rebuilt.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Finishing off the first week, the lips will feel a bit dry as the skin rebuilds itself.
    Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Yet, again and again, a leader emerged to found a new dynasty and rebuild the empire.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Bringing in a new coach to rebuild a program isn’t easy.
    Kyle Brown, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2022
  • In a ground-breaking surgery, doctors gave him a new one — and helped rebuild his life.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Few would argue the rebuilding Sharks were hard to play against.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Below are Sorokin’s images of the state of the community and the work to rebuild.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Working around the clock to ... get more aid into Gaza, rebuild Gaza.
    Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 19 May 2024
  • The plan was to tear it down and rebuild, according to two former close friends.
    Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • The Cougars have come back from the brink to slowly rebuild a program that didn’t even have enough players to field a team.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
  • According to the listing, the south wing of the house burned down in 1830 and was rebuilt some hundreds of years later.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
  • As the waters recede, the process of rebuilding Asheville starts.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The entire Panorama mode in the Pixel 9 has been rebuilt too.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Kirby and friends offer to help rebuild Magolor’s ship and the quest begins.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • After the bridge collapsed in March, Biden promised that the federal government would take care of 100% of the costs of rebuilding it.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Not to mention, Deion Sanders is the head coach of Colorado and has rebuilt the program into one of the most captivating in the nation.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2024

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