How to Use reinvent in a Sentence

reinvent

verb
  • The candidate promised to reinvent Social Security.
  • Was there back and forth over what to nod to and what to reinvent?
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The line, in a sense, is a nod to everyone who has come to New York to reinvent themselves and chase dreams.
    Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Unable to just move on, the shooting forced Oliver and his wife to reinvent their lives.
    Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • A lot of these artists gotta give themselves time to go through a rough period and then come up out of that and reinvent.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2023
  • This is a place where Maggie could have stayed and kept reinventing herself for years to come.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The Maple Terrace project aims to reinvent a piece of Dallas property that dates back to 1925.
    Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The wheel does not need to be reinvented, only improved.
    Steven Phillips, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Lotus, which is owned by China’s Geely, is in the process of reinventing itself for the electric age.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Tobe Hooper and George Romero reinvented it for theirs.
    Krysta Fauria, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The key to sustainability is being able to reinvent your business to grow with the times.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
  • But building a better Safari isn’t the goal — the goal, as ever, is to reinvent what a mobile browser can be.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Out of the Blue draws inspiration from that, then reinvents this universe.
    Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 5 June 2023
  • More than three decades ago, John Woo reinvented the action movie.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 July 2023
  • Akili opened Potato Head Bali in 2010, putting Seminyak on the global lifestyle map and reinventing the idea of a beach club.
    Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2023
  • The new series neither tries too hard to pretend nothing’s changed, nor strains to reinvent itself for the modern era.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Treat the family to a classic pot pie reinvented in a skillet.
    Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Being able to reinvent yourself is a great way not to become too comfortable with doing the same thing over and over again.
    Kenneth J. Williams Jr., Forbes, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Last Dance, the third film in the male-stripper-centric Magic Mike series, Soderbergh is once again looking to reinvent rather than just play the hits.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But now, at 64, Flavor Flav has managed to reinvent himself.
    Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Not that the country’s filmmakers haven’t been busy reinventing the medium and all.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • May, a Harvard professor (and a colleague of mine until his death, in 2009), wanted to reinvent the genre.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Best known for her short, spare memoirs, she has been credited with reinventing the genre.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Eddie Van Halen’s right hand reinvented electric guitar, and Jeff Goebel shook that hand twice.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Since then, she’s been enamored with the way the designer has reinvented the classic suit.
    Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 July 2023
  • Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness.
    Photovogue, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2023
  • And one of the latest examples is at a retailer in business for more than 60 years that’s reinventing itself for a new era.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The song has been reinvented, sped up, given some of the trap flair from which the earlier album had notably departed.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Google’s bookish Pixel Fold is being reinvented for 2024, with a key part of the Pixel iconography set for a change.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Surviving as long as Harbaugh has in one city defies logic, but the good ones reinvent themselves.
    Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023

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