How to Use reconstruct in a Sentence

reconstruct

verb

• They are attempting to reconstruct the events that led to the bridge's collapse.
• Archaeologists were able to reconstruct most of the ancient village from their findings.
• After the earthquake, many houses needed to be reconstructed.
• The city plans to demolish and reconstruct the east side of the span next year, followed by the west side in 2024.
  — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
• Once the boat is on land, the team will reconstruct it—and begin studying it up close.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
• At the more invasive end of the spectrum, there is a surgery to reconstruct the jaw.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The church, built in 1889, had to be reconstructed but the organ survived.
  — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, the European Union and the Gulf states were always ready to foot the bill to reconstruct the ruins in the strip.
  — Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024
• And so Williams set about reconstructing the history of the Moon Trees.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• Collier Lodge, a hunting lodge built on the site in 1898, was dismantled last spring with plans to reconstruct it in the future.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
• Surgeons also removed a part of his leg bone in order to reconstruct a new jaw with it.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• Even many buildings that survived will have to be torn down and reconstructed.
  — David Faris, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023
• Then, if the conditions are right, the system can reconstruct the secret.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
• In the past, scholars had tried to reconstruct missing words and identify where in the larger text these pieces belonged.
  — Chanan Tigay, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
• Her team took skin samples from the dog's belly and reconstructed its genome -- the complete set of genes in an organism.
  — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
• The project proposes to reconstruct the bridge to address these concerns.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
• Frankly, the end of the season was completely reconstructed.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• But how such an adaptation evolved is a challenge to reconstruct.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
• To deal with time constraints, the team shipped the whole assemblage back to Europe and set about the painstaking task of reconstructing the ancient necklace.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• Young, too, had reconstructed the Harmonist labyrinth—out of paper and ink instead of shrubbery and wood.
  — Ryan Ruby, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
• Forecasters, who thought Hilary might show up around 6 p.m., will reconstruct her precise path over the next couple of days.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
• The rings helped researchers to reconstruct the fifth-century climate, identifying dry spells that may have forced the Huns to move on.
  — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• One of their houses has been reconstructed along the walkway to the Nature Center along other structures from the village.
  — Melissa Whatley, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023
• During that time, investigators went back to the scene of the crime, and reconstructed the position of Moreno’s body on the third-floor fire escape.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
• Non-line-of-sight imaging relies on the faint signals of light beams that have reflected off of surfaces in order to reconstruct images.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2024
• President Joe Biden has vowed to reconstruct the bridge as soon as possible.
  — George Solis, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Doty declined to speak with me (through his lawyer), but his odyssey to Magnolia Street can be partially reconstructed with video.
  — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
• Others have said these funds, estimated to be at least $300 billion, should be used to reconstruct the country after the war is over.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• Yet its tone is insular, and reconstructing any sort of network there requires hard work.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• Through the centuries, the cathedral's windows were widened and the flying buttresses reconstructed.
  — Rick Noack, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024