How to Use rewrite history in a Sentence

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• Who next is going to spend many, many dollars to try to rewrite history that’s set in cement?
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• But the tournament hasn’t had to rewrite history books to be action-packed.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• There are places in the nation where people are trying to rewrite history, to take it away, Ellis said.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 9 July 2023
• This faction hunts down and destroys treasure to avoid the messy business of having to rewrite history.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
• More cynically, vaccine diplomacy was a tool to rewrite history: to change the narrative of China as the source of the plague to the world’s saviour from it.
  — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
• Russia is using force to try to rewrite history and deny Ukraine its free and independent path.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
• This act of war is intended to rewrite history and more concerning, upend the balance of power in Europe.
  — Melanie Zanona, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
• Along with a ragtag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2022
• The bill doesn’t rewrite history in the way that the campaigns to protect Confederate memorialization have sometimes sought to.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 10 June 2021
• President Biden’s attempt to rewrite history suggests Democrats are worried about the fallout.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 9 Apr. 2021
• These two have the potential to rewrite history together, and Libra would make a great sales person to an Aquarian’s kooky invention or business idea.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
• But to do so literally is to rewrite history and reauthor events that too many people witnessed and watched happen, and modern baseball has steadfastly declined to do that.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
• What is perhaps more significant is that the texts tend to rewrite history and include the political stances of López Obrador’s administration as gospel.
  — Mark Stevenson and Leon RamÍrez, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• The former president and his supporters are trying to rewrite history.
  — CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
• In some cases, the government has moved to literally rewrite history.
  — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• Democrats have countered with their own campaigns portraying Republicans as extremists who want to ban books and rewrite history.
  — Collin Binkley, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• And Meredith takes the opportunity to rewrite history and create conflict between Jennie and Jen.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
• Abramson said that while Trump’s allies can’t rewrite history and erase what happened, their actions would undermine the authority of the Constitution.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
• By sweeping the insurrection under the rug and trying to rewrite history, the GOP is willing to ignore serious threats to our democracy in pursuit of partisan power.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 1 July 2021
• Ancient bronze statues found in prime condition will ''rewrite history,'' Italian researchers say.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2022
• Republicans have argued that Democrats are trying to rewrite history.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• Who knows, maybe Ritchie will rewrite history to his liking if there’s another installment of ungentlemanly warfare.
  — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2024
• And the findings could rewrite history beyond the moon because scientists extrapolate from the moon’s craters to determine surface ages on planets, moons and asteroids throughout the solar system.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
• Leni Riefenstahl The Birth of a Nation uses drama to contaminate, personalize, and rewrite history.
  — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• Pence is trying to rewrite history here because Trump is vulnerable for his lackadaisical approach to the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Author: Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2020
• Since China imposed a security law on Hong Kong last summer that outlaws dissent, authorities have embarked on a campaign to rewrite history.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• While roaming this world, defending himself and a variety of fantastic creatures from Aku’s often mechanical enforcers, Jack seeks to return to his own time in order to defeat his nemesis and rewrite history.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• Democrats and racial justice advocates accuse Republicans of trying to rewrite history and deprive pupils of a fulfilling curriculum.
  — Bryan Anderson, Star Tribune, 12 May 2021
• In seeking to reverse these two acquisitions, DOJ is attempting to rewrite history at the expense of publishers, advertisers, and Internet users.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
• The former presidents' supporters are trying to rewrite history.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024