How to Use reconstruct in a Sentence

reconstruct

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  • They are attempting to reconstruct the events that led to the bridge's collapse.
  • Archaeologists were able to reconstruct most of the ancient village from their findings.
  • After the earthquake, many houses needed to be reconstructed.
  • The team reconstructed the genomes of viruses frozen in the Guliya Glacier.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The work to reconstruct the inside shoulder of I-40 is part of the 30 Crossing project.
    — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 14 July 2022
  • The city plans to demolish and reconstruct the east side of the span next year, followed by the west side in 2024.
    — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Once the boat is on land, the team will reconstruct it—and begin studying it up close.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • At the more invasive end of the spectrum, there is a surgery to reconstruct the jaw.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The church, built in 1889, had to be reconstructed but the organ survived.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the European Union and the Gulf states were always ready to foot the bill to reconstruct the ruins in the strip.
    — Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
  • And so Williams set about reconstructing the history of the Moon Trees.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Waukegan’s $12 million portion will reconstruct a dock wall along the north portion of the harbor.
    — Karie Angell Luc, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Collier Lodge, a hunting lodge built on the site in 1898, was dismantled last spring with plans to reconstruct it in the future.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • His preference would be to move the whole city to somewhere nearby and reconstruct it.
    — Saeed Shah, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Doctors took tissue from his belly to reconstruct a chunk of flesh the dog tore from his forearm.
    — Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 3 Feb. 2022
  • That $54 million project is part of the city's long-term plan, which also includes the work already done to reconstruct the Market Street spokes.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2022
  • To do this, the researchers checked the lake samples for markers that could help reconstruct what the climate may have been like at the settlement.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Nurse decided to have part of her quad tendon used to reconstruct her ACL.
    — Alexa Juliana Ard, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
  • Surgeons also removed a part of his leg bone in order to reconstruct a new jaw with it.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Even many buildings that survived will have to be torn down and reconstructed.
    — David Faris, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The board agreed to set aside $10 million to redesign and reconstruct the air conditioning plants.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • To reconstruct the brains of ancient birds, researchers need fossils that preserve the hollow space where a brain would sit: the braincase.
    — Bytess Joosse, science.org, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Then, if the conditions are right, the system can reconstruct the secret.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In the past, scholars had tried to reconstruct missing words and identify where in the larger text these pieces belonged.
    — Chanan Tigay, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • With all due respect to Margaret Chase Smith, the path doesn’t lie in trying to reconstruct the old order that helped open the door to our current crisis.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Their work reconstructed the disaster, from the volume of falling ice and rock, to the trajectory of the avalanche.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Her team took skin samples from the dog's belly and reconstructed its genome -- the complete set of genes in an organism.
    — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The project proposes to reconstruct the bridge to address these concerns.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The method proved to be transformative for storing, retrieving and reconstructing patterns in a manner thought to mimic that of the human brain.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Just weeks after announcing a plan (or at least the preparative study of a plan) to reconstruct Park Avenue in its premodern, superior form, the city has just revealed a major makeover for Fifth.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024

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