How to Use reroute in a Sentence

reroute

verb
  • If a student won’t be in school that day, the app reroutes the bus.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
  • But for those that need it, rerouting can be a challenge.
    Camila Domonoske, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
  • When Huffman ran in the race last year, the air was 30 degrees, so the trail melted, and the race was rerouted.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Since then, Kyiv has sought to reroute transport through the Danube and road and rail links into Europe.
    Hanna Arhirova and Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Starting from the drilling of the implant, the entire process took over six months, including a 12-hour surgery to reroute all the nerves.
    WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Busses will be rerouted to Fern Creek to pick up students and return them home.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2024
  • Northbound traffic had since been rerouted in the area to share the freeway’s southbound lanes, the CHP said.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2024
  • In the end, Ali’s book is about the power of storytelling to reroute history.
    Jean Guerrero Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Some theme-park trams were rerouted, others couldn’t be.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • He’s asked the company to instead reroute these checks to Black Lives Matter.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The safeties at the start of this period worked with Zac Etheridge on a drill that focused on rerouting receivers.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Thunderheads to the north forced Lindbergh Field to reroute its traffic.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Williams, 33, tried for nearly six hours to reroute his blue BMW off the highway to get his passenger home.
    Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
  • In many team sports, one player can’t reroute a wayward franchise.
    Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • Planners can reroute stealth missions to prevent leaving tracks in the sky.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The airline wasn’t able to reroute another crew to Atlanta to keep that July 3 flight on time, a spokesman says.
    Scott McCartney, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • Transatlantic flights may even need to reroute and refuel.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • Ships are designed to handle rough seas and can be rerouted to avoid danger.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023
  • That meant Larsen had to buy new tickets for herself and her son to Los Angeles and reroute their trip from there to Rome.
    Time, 3 July 2023
  • As a result, many flights have been forced to reroute, making trips longer and more expensive.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 4 May 2023
  • And unlike resorts on land, ships can reroute as needed.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Coup leaders in Niger announced a closure of its airspace, causing flights to reroute around the country.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Following the derailment, the 1 and 3 trains have been suspended, while the 2 trains have been rerouted, per the M.T.A. site.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • That driver should be able to reroute, or call for an emergency stop, if needed.
    Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The district also sued in federal court in an effort to get the project rerouted.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Moscow has managed to reroute more of its diesel to other markets since July of last year.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The bridge was closed for about an hour and a half, rerouting drivers headed into and out of downtown Portland.
    oregonlive, 13 June 2023
  • According to the flight tracking site FlightAware.com, the plane had been in the air for about an hour and 17 minutes, before rerouting back to Las Vegas to land.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
  • These are a few examples of the major items that could see shortages or price increases as they are either rerouted to West Coast ports or prevented from shipping.
    Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Plus several holes were rerouted, to accommodate the property reduction yet keep the flow of play moving.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

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