How to Use orchestrate in a Sentence

orchestrate

verb
  • A strike was orchestrated by union members.
  • She orchestrated the entire event.
  • It's still unclear who was responsible for orchestrating the attack.
  • He recently orchestrated a musical.
  • There’s the artist and the subject and someone orchestrating the whole thing.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Ochs’s job will be orchestrating a comeback for the brand, best known for its bandage dresses.
    Ezreen Benissan, Vogue, 12 June 2023
  • Sarah and William are now set to be married in a ceremony orchestrated by Eliza in the coming weeks.
    Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The post included a sweet video of King, 69, and her good friend Oprah Winfrey orchestrating the moment!
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Now, there’s the optimist’s view: The Rangers, with a 4-3 record against Toronto and Cleveland, orchestrated a winning road trip.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The Devil is listening, and decides to orchestrate a series of events.
    Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
  • For those of us who lack screenwriters to orchestrate our evening, a decent airport hotel is always the first choice.
    Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Buzbee portrayed the impeachment as a plot orchestrated by an old guard of GOP rivals.
    Paul J. Weber and Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But the idea there is some master plan being orchestrated by the great Democrat puppet masters is garbage.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Not that their grand scheme involved orchestrating their own debuts as singers in a theater around the corner from Covent Garden.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Every family takes deep pride in their own unique way of orchestrating the feast.
    Dan Pelosi, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • It's been orchestrated by, uh, designers in both Australia and New Zealand, incorporating the colors of the land and the ocean, the forest, the deserts.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In Episode 2, her missions to push the heights-phobic Will off the Grand Canyon or orchestrate his drowning on a whitewater rapids excursion have both been thwarted.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In 1965, Andy Warhol set out to write a novel—or, more accurately, to orchestrate a novel’s creation.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • Other over-the-counter companies also were swept into the pump-and-dump schemes orchestrated by Padilla, according to the SEC.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • The hospital claimed Bundy and Rodriguez orchestrated a smear campaign against it.
    Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Sinema and Tillis had already tried to orchestrate an immigration deal late the previous year, but the talks collapsed.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • What matters most is that the entity gets funding authority and the power to orchestrate research and trials across the NIH.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Dessner orchestrated the track and co-produced it with Ron Aniello.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The Utes orchestrated a second 14-point comeback in the Pac-12 championship game two months later as Williams left because of a hamstring injury.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Tarrio wasn’t in Washington, D.C., that day but is accused of orchestrating an attack from afar.
    Michael Kunzelman and Lindsay Whitehurst, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The second is that detectives came to believe that Ashley Butts had orchestrated the attack.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Others say that these forces may be orchestrating some of the deadly attacks themselves, to scare foragers into bringing them along on future trips.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Two of those people — Shafer and then-state party treasurer Shawn Still — helped orchestrate the meeting, the indictment alleges.
    Jeff Amy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • But in 1998, prosecutors told jurors Sneed killed Van Treese in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Glossip.
    Brynn Gingras, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Our mom orchestrated Christmas concerts for our small churches with twangy mountain songs.
    Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024

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