How to Use refashion in a Sentence

refashion

verb
  • Bloom is the one left to pick up the pieces and refashion the Red Sox into a winner.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2020
  • For the event, the artist refashioned one of Lisa Perry's cocktail shifts for the designer, one of the evening's hosts.
    Whitney Robinson, Town & Country, 24 June 2014
  • Years later, Queen Camilla would pull the piece from the archives and refashion it to her taste.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But what about a showrunner who melts the new molds down and refashions them into Möbius strip?
    Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • With the full Moon of the 9th in Aries, put new options under the microscope and refashion your future.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Last night, Taylor Swift tore down the night sky and refashioned it into a cocktail dress.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Elke Schwarz Every tool can be refashioned to become a weapon.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 8 May 2024
  • Since 1845, when Florida became a state, man has been refashioning the glades, chiefly, to dry, build on, farm and make money off the land, some of the most fertile in the world.
    Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The first two attempts to refashion her jaw, using a bone from her leg and then a bone from her rib, failed because of infection.
    Theresa Walker, Orange County Register, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Over the years, costumes were rented out, refashioned, or simply lost.
    Celia Reyer, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Its owners had hired a young Paris architect, Pierre Barbe, to refashion the interior, which had been carved up over the years.
    William Middleton, Town & Country, 7 Mar. 2018
  • If history is a guide, the Rams can refashion the line one of two ways: veteran players or rookies.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The Greene Street property sat vacant, as Bell worked to refashion it inside.
    Craig R. McCoy, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • The old Replays Bar & Grill has been refashioned into a private entrance.
    Steve Vockrodt, kansascity, 17 May 2018
  • With Om Shanti Om, Khan hoped to refashion himself in a sexier mold.
    Thomas Rogers, Bloomberg.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Years of preparations to unseat Wynne’s Liberals must now be refashioned ahead of the election on June 7.
    Bloomberg.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The hotel was refashioned from a section of the Pearl Brewery, an imposing 1894 building.
    Lynn Freehill-Maye, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • The project is part of an unusual effort to refashion Swarovski into, of all things, a tech company.
    Mark Scott, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2016
  • Xi is trying to assert his own rules and norms of diplomacy to refashion the global order and place China at its center.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Some refashioned Pocari Sweat’s Chinese name (寶礦力) with a homonym, rebranding it as a drink of the resistance (寶抗力), for example.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 11 July 2019
  • Ledford wants to refashion this former mine into a new kind of profitable venture.
    Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 11 July 2018
  • Stitch Fix, the online styling service and apparel seller, is trying to refashion its own look.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Some of the exhibits have been used before, some partially refashioned and some are brand new, the work of 19 artists the company brought from China, said president George Zhao.
    Nancy Brachey, charlotteobserver, 5 Sep. 2017
  • But perhaps the most remarkable example of how Stevens and his players have refashioned their team was the game put up by Semi Ojeleye.
    Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • This classic piece can be refashioned into a elegant dresser with a few strokes of a brush or some easy-install hardware—here are our fave makeovers.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Agent of Chaos Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a first step in refashioning a Russian empire has had the opposite effect.
    Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • At issue would have been Mr Zuckerberg’s plans to refashion the social-media firm’s share-ownership structure more in his favour.
    The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Mr Bekker refashioned it around new media, expanding its pay-TV business across Africa and investing in budding tech firms around the world.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Here, Industry refashions the project to probe at the more delicate relationship between underdog identities and participation in a deeply questionable system.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2024
  • By merging alternative subcultures with traditional music, Clover-Lynn seeks to refashion the stereotypical sounds and images of Appalachian music.
    G. Samantha Rosenthal, Them, 3 Oct. 2024

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