How to Use reincarnate in a Sentence

reincarnate

verb
  • Each time one 007 retires, the franchise just reincarnates the agent into a new body.
    Wired, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Will flying into a monolith transport you across space-time and reincarnate you as the star child?
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The Doctor has been reincarnated 12 times since the show began—all into men.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 17 July 2017
  • Azor Ahai is an ancient legendary hero in the religion of R'hllor—or the Lord of the Light—who is prophesied to be reincarnated.
    Abby Gardner, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2019
  • The tales of a nation are encrypted, more often ignored, and rarely reincarnated in the heart.
    Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • If the spirit is willing, the skill set on tap falls short of reincarnating those cult classics’ uniquely outré tenor.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The insight shared with us is told by the family dog who wishes to be reincarnated someday as a human.
    Ramona Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Once the soul is severed from the body through cremation, it is reincarnated in another body.
    Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The 14th has said he might be reincarnated outside China.
    The Economist, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Then there is the question of whether the tradition of anointing children as lama reincarnates makes sense and still has a place in modern Mongolia.
    David Pierson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Woodrum got his chance to back up his performance from the first two games and suddenly was reincarnated as a small-school quarterback.
    Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2017
  • His story of a furry best friend who wants to be reincarnated as a human race car driver is coming to theaters Aug. 9.
    Tatia Woldt, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • But all anyone eyeing 19-year-old Alan that night saw was George Gershwin, reincarnated.
    David Margolick, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Through three games, the Raptors have not exactly looked like the 2014 San Antonio Spurs reincarnated.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 5 June 2019
  • This approach does not exactly make the Bruins the early-1980s Oilers reincarnate.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The couple plans to reincarnate the hotel’s famous Peacock Alley.
    Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The patriarch, an Elvis impersonator/magician, may or may not have died and may or may not have been reincarnated as a cat.
    Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Heavenly Dog, which starred Chevy Chase as a detective reincarnated as a dog.
    Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The trash gains new life in China, and sometimes comes back to America reincarnated at factories as new boxes, toys and other goods.
    Paul Page, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017
  • So what would that look like if this Mind Flayer reincarnates itself in a creature that’s much more like a dinosaur or like a deformed dinosaur, like Frankenstein’s deformed dinosaur?
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 July 2019
  • The author of the story the photos accompanied wrote that Barr asked to dress up like Hitler for the photo spread because she (jokingly?) believes she is Hitler reincarnated.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
  • During a midlife crisis a star can disappear completely, or reincarnate in a colorful cloud of gas.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The biotech company Colossal is actively working to reincarnate both the ancient woolly mammoth and the thylacine.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Many Berlin officials see some old-school French tendencies reincarnated in the 39-year-old president.
    Marcus Walker, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Only one person at a time is capable of using all four; that person is called the Avatar, and when the Avatar dies they are reincarnated into the next generation so there's always someone around to keep balance in the world.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2020
  • To Stone and von Hauske Valtierra, reincarnating as Contrair was an aesthetic decision as much as a practical one.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 1 May 2020
  • The long-dead woolly mammoth will make its return from extinction by 2027, says Colossal, the biotech company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The scrap gains new life in China, and sometimes comes back to America reincarnated after factories break it down and use it as raw material to make new boxes, toys and other goods.
    Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The anonymous monk who happened upon the odd bone passed it along to the sixth Gung-Thang Living Buddha, an eminent figure thought to be reincarnated from past individuals who held the title.
    National Geographic, 1 May 2019
  • But the true magic of Avatar, much like its titular reincarnating figure, was its ability to cross generations.
    EW.com, 29 Jan. 2024

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