How to Use revise in a Sentence

revise

verb
  • We have to revise our plans because of the delays.
  • I would like to revise my estimate.
  • And the bad news for the world was that there wasn’t much to revise.
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Trump says he was fired — is forced to revise his draft.
    Zeke Miller, The Denver Post, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The push to revise prices could have a far-reaching impact.
    Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, 5 July 2019
  • The number of hostages has been revised downward to reflect those found dead.
    NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • But the study argues those standards should be revised.
    Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 28 June 2017
  • The bills would revise how attendance is linked to funding.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
  • At the time, the SEC didn’t revise the rule that permits the plans.
    Dave Michaels, WSJ, 7 June 2021
  • It was revised the next year with a new plan to sell naloxone, the lawsuits allege.
    Kristen Gelineau, The Denver Post, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The statistics will be revised once the analysis is done.
    Beth J. Harpaz, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The bloc aims to revise the list of countries allowed to enter every two weeks.
    Editors, USA TODAY, 30 June 2020
  • In a new twist just this week, Collins revised his story yet again.
    Freep.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The College Board did revise its treatment of both of these ideas.
    Laura Meckler, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Eventually, the creative team met to point out what to revise and how to do it.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Some banks have revised their policies in recent years.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Muir has revised his offense this season with more shifts.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Fox wants to save a version of herself that’s already been revised.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 18 June 2018
  • Those goals meant months of revising and perfecting the shades that ended up in the palette.
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The latest reading is preliminary and may be revised in the months ahead.
    Ben Casselman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Cherniss was among the public officials who had asked the county to revise its waiver rules.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Posts that are edited will have a little icon next to the timestamp showing that they’ve been revised.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The flurry of action by states to adopt new election laws or revise them is not new, experts said.
    Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Some home buyers didn’t revise their price ranges downward as rates climbed.
    cleveland, 2 July 2022
  • But demographers warn that it should be taken with a grain of salt since the numbers are fuzzy and could be revised.
    Mike Schneider, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Not all the bullish investors have gone back to revise their history of crypto dealings.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The authors then revise their paper to address those concerns.
    Sara Harrison, Wired, 8 July 2020
  • The school started a football team, revised its mission and laid off faculty and staff to cut costs.
    Robert Massa, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And while the alliance has welcomed efforts to revise the standards, not all of its members agree.
    David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2018
  • There's a diversity of viewpoints there about how it should be revised and what the trigger should be and why.
    Matt Laslo, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2019

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