How to Use rebuild in a Sentence

rebuild

verb
  • The new owner plans to rebuild the franchise.
  • They tried to rebuild after the earthquake.
  • He rebuilt his house after it was destroyed by a fire.
  • The team is rebuilding after losing most of its top players.
  • The job of rebuilding trust in the currency now falls to Erkan.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • The couple, who first opened the lodge in 2008, made the hard decision to rebuild.
    Adam Erace, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Reims was rebuilt in the next decade during the Art Deco age.
    Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2023
  • Later, the building was lost in a fire and rebuilt out of reclaimed wood.
    oregonlive, 13 July 2023
  • In a ground-breaking surgery, doctors gave him a new one — and helped rebuild his life.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • According to the listing, the south wing of the house burned down in 1830 and was rebuilt some hundreds of years later.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
  • All of the buildings virtually are gonna have to be rebuilt.
    CBS News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Lisa didn’t last long, and some in our group rebuilt friendships with Tim — mainly the men — and some have not — mainly the women.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But even with that training, none of them was willing to take on rebuilding stone walls.
    Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The group, which supports Ukraine in the war, has been open about wanting to topple Vladimir Putin's regime and rebuild a new Russia.
    Phil McCausland, NBC News, 25 June 2023
  • While the resilience of the Hawaiian people is legendary, this tragedy will take time and resources to rebuild from.
    Town & Country, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In the 60 years since the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the church has been rebuilt, and stained glass has been repaired, but there are still wounds time has yet to heal.
    Kara Nelson, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • What’s notable is that players can copy a blueprint of their base and rebuild it in another part of the world.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • However, people continued to come to the area, and some tried to rebuild the tubs.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Every year, their school must be rebuilt because storms wash it away.
    Hilary Howard, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Rebuild fit: Winslow’s basketball IQ could serve well with a young team in rebuild mode.
    Afentres, oregonlive, 7 May 2023
  • Tuesday will be a transition day as the front moves along and high pressure begins to rebuild.
    oregonlive, 24 July 2023
  • Their minds were really focused on how to rebuild their lives.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The question is - how is Maryland planning to approach their bridge rebuild?
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In both cases, the plan would see Ukraine rebuild its forces this year and resume counterattacks no later than in the spring of 2025.
    Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Now he’s returned to rebuild it on a slightly larger scale, the idea being that cafe patrons might even eat their lunch there.
    Tom Vanderbilt Josh Robenstone, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Its military is stretched thin supplying the current wars and will take years to rebuild.
    David Malpass, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Century and Liberty each are looking to rebuild their rosters in efforts to get back to the top of the county.
    Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Intel is rebuilding itself, Gelsinger said, to serve more markets in more ways.
    Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Weingarten had been working to try to rebuild trust between some families and their schools.
    Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Repaired and partially rebuilt, the steamer entered service in the Puget Sound area by April 1869.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023

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