How to Use rewrite in a Sentence

rewrite

1 of 2 verb

• The teacher asked him to rewrite the essay.
• I had to rewrite the computer program.
• This one did not need to be rewritten.
  — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
• Tom Cruise rewrote the rules of movie stardom.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
• The Pisces new moon rewrites your routines.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
• Time has a way of rewriting the story.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
• But now the record books keep being rewritten.
  — Alex Hutchinson, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
• The flood rewrote both the schedule and the agenda.
  — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• In under a minute, the car's brain is rewritten.
  — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
• But rather than drop its lawsuit in the spring, Kairoi rewrote it.
  — Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
• And when guests would change, there’d be lots of scrambling to rewrite.
  — Stuart Miller, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• But 2024 rewrote the weather record book.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Mejuri has been rewriting the rules of jewelry for more than a decade.
  — Karin Eldor, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• Then rewrite it again once the story’s true theme becomes clear.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
• And stop letting a clever label rewrite the rules.
  — Mick Mulvaney, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
• But that story is being rewritten now.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
• Chefs build dishes around what’s growing right now, then rewrite the menu when the next crop comes in.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026
• More importantly, none of the past is rewritten to fit the needs of the present.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
• It may have been abandoned mid-draft or rewritten ten times over, or restarted in half a dozen places.
  — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
• Meanwhile, soccer was rewriting its own records.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 June 2026
• Lukas Gage is rewriting the rules of the celebrity memoir.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
• Heritage Month, a new wave of authors is rewriting the script.
  — Christina Fan, CBS News, 14 May 2026
• That ladder is now being rewritten.
  — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• Agentic commerce is rewriting those steps.
  — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
• Shafiei gave her a new sheet of paper and told her to rewrite the statement, filling in the blanks, and then sign it.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Queries get rewritten every time a dimension changes.
  — Vinay Bhaskara, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• For the next screening, Woody was rewritten to be warmer and less aggressive.
  — Mason Leath, ABC News, 12 June 2026
• Cambodia’s legal framework does not need to be rewritten to fix this.
  — Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
• Many of the articles on the site are rewritten press releases.
  — David Folkenflik, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• There’s a lot of wheeling and dealing going on in the show as far as rewriting and tweaking things on the spot.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023

rewrite

2 of 2 noun

• So that was the nature of that rewrite.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
• The result, per the outlet, was heavy rewrites and reshoots.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
• The result, per the outlet, was heavy rewrites and reshoots.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
• But this is not the first time a rewrite was deemed necessary.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Which isn’t to say that this is a subversive rewrite of the text.
  — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
• The platform asked for a massive rewrite of the last two episodes.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• Instead, the show goes on without any sign of a rewrite.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
• Getting there might require a page-one rewrite.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2025
• But Milian was still brought on for rewrites, and her voice can be heard in the chorus.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• This wasn’t the rewrite of a horror story that began more than a decade ago.
  — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• They’re drawn to her like moths to a flame, to quote a disappointing lyric rewrite.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
• That meant a page one rewrite for the project, which had labored in the screenwriting phase.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
• Once that rewrite is finished, the entire process could begin again.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2022
• Paul did a massive rewrite on the first one but didn’t get a credit, but the second movie was all him.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• Joel Klatt of Fox Sports was among those pushing for a rewrite.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 18 June 2021
• Just then, though, Maxine’s future gets a rewrite.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
• This script just keeps getting upgrades with every rewrite.
  — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2026
• In boardrooms across the globe, a familiar script is getting a hasty rewrite.
  — Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• And his eventual hiring led him to confront his post-Kicks life in his rewrites of the script.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
• What sparked more rewrites after the Kennedy Center concert?
  — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
• Do, Kotek’s spokesperson, said a major rewrite of the state’s land-use laws is not on the table.
  — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
• Even if much of the story is written, a rewrite is always possible.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• When Auria woke from her nap, Almodóvar was ready with a rewrite.
  — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• In some cases big musicals even get extensive rewrites.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
• Given the unfortunate turn of events, that last sentence may need a rewrite.
  — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• That was reflected in the 2023 code rewrite.
  — Mark Dee march 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Mar. 2026
• Apparently, there were a lot of rewrites mid-production.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
• The producer asked Coolio for a rewrite, and the rapper agreed.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• So one of the big things that the administration just announced is a rewrite to that guideline.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
• There was a rewrite to address the issues and the first episode draft in particular was improved.
  — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026