How to Use resize in a Sentence

resize

verb
  • Just know that some apps will need to be resized in the phone's settings.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Raster images don't resize well.
    — Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Click and drag the pop-up window to move it, and drag in (or out) from its edges to resize it.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
  • As is common practice, the image was resized to fit our specs.
    — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In the new update, users will also be able to pin and resize widgets right on the home screen.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2020
  • People can resize their widgets or change their locations on the screen.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 24 June 2021
  • Cadillac’s bet is that women want fanwear designed for them from the start, not just resized men’s gear.
    — Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Crop, resize, or rotate photos.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Print out flame templates and resize on a copier, scaling the images to fit your pumpkins.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • First, not all of the passes were at the same distance, so scientists had to resize the images to match the scale.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2011
  • When the onscreen keyboard pops up, the area an app gets to draw in suddenly shrinks, and the app needs to resize itself.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Need to quickly resize a graphic for use across multiple platforms?
    — PCMAG, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Touch screens are also useful for tasks such as resizing photos or drawing on the display.
    — Larry Magid, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • But most team merchandise is still designed for men and then awkwardly resized for women.
    — Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There’s also an option to buy a set of hangers on a custom rod that can be resized to fit a variety of spaces.
    — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
  • It’s recommended to resize the window to fill the screen corners instead.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Print our skeletal hand template and arm template, and resize them on a copier, scaling the images to fit your pumpkins.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • Even more difficult is selecting an object to resize or rotate.
    — Sally Wiener Grotta, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2011
  • Everyone was very confused about whether the watch’s band could be resized because only one kind of wrist was shown in the commercial.
    — Seth Reiss, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
  • The script to install Asahi was as helpful and straightforward as a terminal script that resizes your hard drive can be.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 May 2024
  • The app offers a variety of editing tools to rotate, layer, resize and animate projects.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This is especially true when resizing widgets that move app icons to new locations and alter your home screen layout.
    — Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Lynn Mosher had gained weight following her husband’s death in 2015 and had her ring resized.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Users can open any number of virtual windows, resize and move them around in space, and combine them with a real-world Mac display.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This helps users find apps that resize well, aren't letterboxed, and support both portrait and landscape orientations.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
  • Autofocus, keystone correction, fit-to-screen and resize for obstacle avoidance are on hand for ease of use too.
    — New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2025
  • New reports have popped up discussing the potential of a new iPad multitasking mode that could let users resize windows.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 May 2022
  • The code seems to suggest users could completely resize windows freely on iPadOS.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 May 2022
  • The ability to resize the Windows 11 Start menu also has thousands of votes.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The majority of venues will resize following the World Cup to host a variety of events.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 18 Nov. 2022

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