How to Use reinvent in a Sentence

reinvent

verb
  • The candidate promised to reinvent Social Security.
  • The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places.
    — EW.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Was there back and forth over what to nod to and what to reinvent?
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Each season, the hair pro likes to reinvent the wheel.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Clay must reinvent the group each season.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Some things don’t need to be reinvented.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Bertelli doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 6 May 2026
  • Get out of town, reinvent yourself.
    — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Know that whole axiom about not needing to reinvent the wheel?
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
  • September marks the dawn of fall and the urge to reinvent one’s wardrobe.
    — Laura Lajiness, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Time and again, mass trauma seems to force artists to think in new ways or even reinvent their forms.
    — Karl Taro Greenfeld, Town & Country, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Some, like Snider, seem ready to reinvent themselves for the new age.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • But nothing comes close to cruise ships, which have had to reinvent themselves.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
  • There aren’t many hitters who can reinvent their game at 37 years old.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2022
  • There’s no need to reinvent yourself this winter.
    — The Editors, Outside, 29 Dec. 2025
  • But this is about reinventing the wheel, and there's sure to be plenty of bumps in the road.
    — ABC News, 5 May 2026
  • Using a div for a button is just reinventing the wheel with more bugs.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • To reinvent yourself and redeem your life.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • This isn't the time to reinvent your whole financial life in a weekend.
    — Steve Hruby, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The world of work is being reinvented right before our eyes.
    — Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Now, many are waiting to see how the onetime wiz kid will reinvent himself again.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Rather than putting an end to it, the virus is forcing the sector to reinvent itself.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Berg says that Davis also kept reinventing the art form.
    — Helena Alonso Paisley, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2025
  • To reinvent the shooter in the present, the team had to study Halo’s past.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In other words, reinvent the engine but not the steering wheel.
    — Ravi Mayuram, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Pitching wise the Guardians have not tried to reinvent themselves.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Again, don't get your hopes up that Sonic 2 will reinvent the game-to-film genre.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Of course, this isn’t the first attempt to reinvent family play.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Around 35 years ago, those four words reinvented the concept of the remix.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Its nascent plan to reinvent itself is worth watching—if only as a poignant farewell to a freer age.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022

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