How to Use reincarnate in a Sentence

reincarnate

verb
  • Yee’s monster reincarnates again and again, taking on forms in tandem with the times.
    — Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Will flying into a monolith transport you across space-time and reincarnate you as the star child?
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Each time one 007 retires, the franchise just reincarnates the agent into a new body.
    — Wired, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Once the soul is severed from the body through cremation, it is reincarnated in another body.
    — John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • If the spirit is willing, the skill set on tap falls short of reincarnating those cult classics’ uniquely outré tenor.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The insight shared with us is told by the family dog who wishes to be reincarnated someday as a human.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The tales of a nation are encrypted, more often ignored, and rarely reincarnated in the heart.
    — Richard Brady, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • If the ghost really wants to live, try reincarnating it into a different body.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Only then, after the purification of flames, can their souls reincarnate.
    — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • Woodrum got his chance to back up his performance from the first two games and suddenly was reincarnated as a small-school quarterback.
    — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The Doctor has been reincarnated 12 times since the show began—all into men.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 17 July 2017
  • Moran and Tilley both hope that the exhibition will help reincarnate some of that fearless attitude the city once had.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 20 Feb. 2025
  • During a midlife crisis a star can disappear completely, or reincarnate in a colorful cloud of gas.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Are any of the other characters reincarnated versions of other people who have been here before?
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
  • In stage two, they’re faced with visions of the past, and in stage three (the final stage), they’re reincarnated as something new, which restarts the six phases of life and death.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Feb. 2025
  • On his first day of freedom, Tulio plans on ending his life, but a teenager knocks on his door, claiming to be Caio reincarnated.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The patriarch, an Elvis impersonator/magician, may or may not have died and may or may not have been reincarnated as a cat.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Then there is the question of whether the tradition of anointing children as lama reincarnates makes sense and still has a place in modern Mongolia.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The story follows an influencer who gets reincarnated for 28 days and returns to haunt the bullies who drove her to suicide.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • When the tectonic plates began to pull apart millions of years later, those ancient faults at their edges reawakened, reincarnated as transform faults.
    — Evan Howell, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Heavenly Dog, which starred Chevy Chase as a detective reincarnated as a dog.
    — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2024
  • It is later revealed Tommy never reincarnated, but Billy is able to find his spirit and place it into a new body.
    — Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The couple plans to reincarnate the hotel’s famous Peacock Alley.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • But all anyone eyeing 19-year-old Alan that night saw was George Gershwin, reincarnated.
    — David Margolick, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.
    — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Gein said that he was motivated by the desire to make a full-body suit out of these women’s skins, planning to occupy them and become his mother reincarnated.
    — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The trash gains new life in China, and sometimes comes back to America reincarnated at factories as new boxes, toys and other goods.
    — Paul Page, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The biotech company Colossal is actively working to reincarnate both the ancient woolly mammoth and the thylacine.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Azor Ahai is an ancient legendary hero in the religion of R'hllor—or the Lord of the Light—who is prophesied to be reincarnated.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 29 Apr. 2019
  • This approach does not exactly make the Bruins the early-1980s Oilers reincarnate.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022

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