How to Use rebuild in a Sentence

rebuild

verb
  • The new owner plans to rebuild the franchise.
  • They tried to rebuild after the earthquake.
  • He rebuilt his house after it was destroyed by a fire.
  • The team is rebuilding after losing most of its top players.
  • Some of it cannot be rebuilt at all.
    — Zeynep Portway, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
  • Trust, once lost, is hard to rebuild.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Sanders will need to rebuild that with a new-look team.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Clear the space, clean it and then rebuild with your zones in mind.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
  • And now is looking to dump salary and rebuild yet again.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • Tillis billed it as a way to rebuild public trust.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Many damaged homes will have to be torn down and rebuilt.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Cut the red tape to start rebuilding.
    — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • Who’s going to rebuild it for us?
    — Beth D'addono, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Those tribes rebuilt, and those tribes are thriving now.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Church is within, and that's why this church will rebuild.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Trust is not rebuilt with meta-analyses.
    — Vikas Patel, STAT, 3 Apr. 2026
  • And more grocery stores are on the way through new builds or rebuilds.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That’s not something cities get to rebuild once it’s gone.
    — Parin Moradiya, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But, over time, they can be rebuilt and installed in new sites.
    — Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The first step is rebuilding trust.
    — Sierra Van Der Brug, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • None of those teams are rebuilding.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • None of those teams are rebuilding.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • The woman didn’t know what to do with her kids, how to rebuild or where to turn.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Will Eve have a fire in her belly to rebuild it?
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The player has to rebuild the world into a new utopia.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The goal here is to rebuild trust with a wider audience.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The key now is to rebuild the city’s property base.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The workflows people build now will need to be rebuilt.
    — Matt Shumer, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This could be a chance to lock in some gains and rebuild your cash position.
    — Jeff Nash, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Trust may need to be rebuilt around a money matter.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 12 Mar. 2026

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