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.
• The acidic vinegar alters the color as the egg sits in the dye.
  — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2023
• The club have not altered his release clause in any way.
  — SI.com, 29 June 2018
• The scheme changes and the vision for each player gets altered.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• All these new dams could do far more than alter the flow of streams.
  — Sharon Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• Maybe the next great coach looms to alter a program’s course.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2021
• On the ground, flakes alter every day, with the air, wind, and sun.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• The wind tunnel and the freefalls didn’t alter their performance.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
• Not a word can be changed, cut, added, not a scene can be altered.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• It has been recreated and altered in countless ways in the years hence.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
• The delicate chemistry of a locker room can be altered for the worse.
  — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• But this year’s could alter what thousands of students learn and who will teach them in the years to come.
  — oregonlive, 30 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
• But rain isn't the only thing that alters the earth beneath roads.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
• This change did not alter the schedule for any of the three water and wastewater line projects.
  — Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019
• Sunday’s show was altered because of clouds and light rain.
  — Gus Chan, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• No amount of talk about the greater good can alter that inconvenient truth.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• Two key facts that drive life on Earth are altered in orbit.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• But now, those grades have altered her future, the student says.
  — Rachel Leingang, azcentral, 25 June 2019
• Life is filled with little moments that alter the path.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2022
• How much has the trajectory been altered by two straight wins?
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 15 July 2019
• If all goes to plan, the collision will redirect the space rock and alter its flight path.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2022
• For last night's event, her dress was altered to include cap sleeves.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Mar. 2019
• Yet there a few who have stuck around for tens of millions of years with no apparent need to alter their form.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
• That result didn’t alter his thinking that punting was the right call.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2022
• All this could be altered by a flick of a switch from Labour’s Corbyn.
  — Henry Porter, The Hive, 13 July 2017

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024