How to Use upcycle in a Sentence

upcycle

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• Have your children grab an old pair of jeans and upcycle them into a lunch bag.
  — Andrea Silen, National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2020
• Come up with creative ways to upcycle your products and sell them to your customers.
  — Shane Barker, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• Bahnsen first launched bags in 2021 as part of the brand’s upcycling initiative, called Encore.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2023
• King Charles is upcycling royal decor, all in the name of charity.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
• Learn where to find affordable goods and how to upcycle them to boost your income quickly.
  — Kat Brancato, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2021
• Utilizing this method to upcycle the manure can help both save trees and manage waste.
  — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2018
• But there are lots of other ways to upcycle your Apple tablet or phone and keep using it every day.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 25 May 2020
• This isn’t a new concept, of course, from upcycling old jeans into shorts and using the excess for patches to dyeing clothes with fruit.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
• But the best eco-friendly strategies, Piper says, are upcycling your current pieces or thrifting used items.
  — Jenna Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• Students will bring in a denim jacket or jeans and learn to upcycle a piece of clothing with embroidery.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2021
• What's more, food waste is minimized by the kitchen's upcycling team, which turns scraps into preserves, pickles, and stocks.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2024
• Featuring a slew of emerging designers, many of whom who upcycle their goods, the pop-up will run until June 8.
  — Sara Radin, Teen Vogue, 17 May 2019
• And the opportunity of going into the theater's archives to choose old pieces and upcycle them in the costumes process.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2023
• There are many ways to upcycle your wardrobe, but this TikToker has taken her remixed fashion to a whole new level with backpacks!
  — Essence, 29 Oct. 2021
• McLaughlin gets paid by brands to upcycle their products for her social media channels.
  — CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
• Novak had been in the heating, venting and air conditioning business for two decades when a leftover piece of pipe sparked the idea to attempt to upcycle it into a light fixture.
  — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 27 June 2017
• But once an item is damaged or unwearable, it is upcycled into new products.
  — Kaitlin Marks, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
• Asked to upcycle an unloved tee, Cheng decided the best option would be to dye it with natural materials.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2021
• Since 2013, students at Pratt Institute have had to upcycle clothes into new designs.
  — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2018
• The Hoxton opened last spring, upcycling a ho-hum '70s building into a kinetic homage to the district's early-20th-century heritage.
  — Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2024
• These days, he can mostly be found in Hasle harbor, rescuing old fishing boats from the scrap heap, and upcycling them for use as accommodation.
  — Isabelle Kliger, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• Put those pieces to good use by upcycling them as your greenhouse organization system.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 27 June 2023
• What better way to upcycle old shipping pallets then by displaying your liquor collection on them?
  — Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2018
• Founding their studio on upcycling vintage furniture, Obradovic and Basedow have made a name for themselves as specialists in resin and concrete.
  — Damon Johnstun, oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2023
• Part of the show will feature the work of another group of designers who will upcycle deastock Public School fabrics to fashion new garments.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2022
• Anyone who brings plastic waste to the National Gallery of Denmark can join a complimentary workshop on upcycling it into an art piece.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 12 Aug. 2024
• In essence, the existing structures would be upcycled into new buildings and additional construction could make the campus twice as dense.
  — Curbed, 9 Jan. 2024
• Whiskertin originated when Novak, who had been in the heating, venting and air conditioning business for two decades, saw a leftover piece of pipe and wanted to upcycle it into a light fixture.
  — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Our food and nutrition pros love that the revolutionary brand upcycles the whole cacao fruit, including the shell, fruit, and beans, to create its innovative products.
  — Good Housekeeping, 20 June 2023
• Personalized notebooks, backpacks, pencil cases and other items can be upcycled with dollar store craft supplies like stickers, badges, pins and fabric paint.
  — Food Drink Life, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024