How to Use rearrangement in a Sentence

rearrangement

noun
  • The rearrangement of rivers and lakes.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The ten-year rearrangement was due a year ago, but failed to connect.
    — Don Delillo, Harpers Magazine, 5 May 2025
  • The rearrangements, from one year to the next, proved dizzying.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Will there be a rearrangement of the deck chairs on the Kremlin ship of state?
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • That said, leaks point to a smaller notch and a rearrangement of the rear cameras.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 17 Aug. 2021
  • There would be more hiccups, more rearrangements.
    — Michael Paterniti, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025
  • This would only lead to a rearrangement of each team's dance partner.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The civil war, which led to one such rearrangement, started the following month.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • And yet from this abstract rearrangement of tadpole features, normal frogs emerged.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The biggest change involves the rearrangement of scenes near the beginning.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2024
  • This time, the rearrangement looks far more radical than the puny size of Gaza might have suggested.
    — Max Rodenbeck, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This called for a total rearrangement of the interiors, top to bottom.
    — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • These rearrangements have altered gene expression in ways that have produced diverse traits.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
  • With the changes in function came a rearrangement of furniture and accessories.
    — Chris Bynum, NOLA.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Eventually, the three girls will have their own rooms, prompting the need for the radical rearrangement of space.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
  • Would a rearrangement of boardroom chairs bolster people’s trust in Facebook?
    — Owen Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
  • And his offspring would carry the same genetic rearrangements containing it as well.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Those rearrangements also put specific parts of the genome near or far from landmarks within the nucleus.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
  • West sings, often standing in front of a keyboard, as the guest vocalists provide backup in gospel rearrangements of his songs.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 24 May 2019
  • The researchers identified genome rearrangements in the little skate that were not present in any other vertebrates.
    — Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • Quitting loomed large in my mind but so did a wholesale rearrangement of my social life and my primary means of entertainment.
    — Meghan Howes, The Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Home, a drive-in movie theater, a dingy park and a hospital room are demarcated with the rearrangement of old tires, cinder blocks and spare wood.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • There is a broad swath of the Radical thinking that was dedicated to the power of rearrangement.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The kitchen got a similar top-to-bottom overhaul plus new stainless steel fixtures and some rearrangement to improve workflow.
    — al, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The state alleges that the rearrangement increased the risk residents would catch Covid-19.
    — Ted Mann, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The rearrangements did little to rouse the Red Sox, who collected six hits in the first six innings, then went hitless in the last three.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But trade is merely a symptom of a larger rearrangement of American alienation from its partners.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
  • The space between my two front teeth, the one that started all this, looks OK to me, but my crowded bottom teeth resist rearrangement.
    — Summer Block, Longreads, 23 Aug. 2019
  • In the patient samples, there were just hints of a disorderly rearrangement of the muscle fibers, Conklin said.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The new locker room tunnel will also require some rearrangement on the Walk of Champions.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 21 Nov. 2019

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