How to Use alter in a Sentence

alter

verb

• I'll need to have the dress altered before the wedding.
• This one small event altered the course of history.
• He altered his will to leave everything to his sister.
• Alcohol can alter a person's mood.
• The place has altered in the 10 years since I left.
• This will be altered, no doubt.
  — Cutter Martin, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
• These two plays alter the grade here.
  — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2025
• All these new dams could do far more than alter the flow of streams.
  — Sharon Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• The Fed can’t alter this truth.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
• Not a word can be changed, cut, added, not a scene can be altered.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• Is there such a thing as one right moment to alter time?
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026
• We all get used to changes, to altered skylines.
  — Kate Belli, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
• That’s fine to sort of alter the skyline.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 4 Sep. 2025
• Life here is altered, and not for the better.
  — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 15 May 2026
• They are measured in lives altered or lost.
  — Nicole Kruegel, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
• Maybe the next great coach looms to alter a program’s course.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
• They were all altered weeks in advance.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 23 Jan. 2026
• Time for fans to alter the refrain.
  — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• The room is not changed; what has altered is the state of her mind, or of her heart.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 19 Feb. 2026
• For last night's event, her dress was altered to include cap sleeves.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Mar. 2019
• This is not the first event in the city that has been altered due to the heat this week.
  — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 3 July 2026
• And there’s even a certain canyon known to steal hearts and alter lives.
  — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• On the ground, flakes alter every day, with the air, wind, and sun.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• Two walkers altered their route and took to the woods to help with the search.
  — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
• But that trade did little to alter the state of the system.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
• The acidic vinegar alters the color as the egg sits in the dye.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2023
• That did not alter the nature of her job, or her approach to it.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 June 2021
• The head coach has not altered that stance over the ensuing weeks.
  — Andy Jones, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• It can be preserved in form while altered in function.
  — Alejandro Reyes, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
• The scheme changes and the vision for each player gets altered.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2019