How to Use revert in a Sentence

revert

verb
  • For starters, the rights to the movie reverted back to the band.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Who then would wish to revert to the pre-fracking status quo?
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Two years later, the state reverted to its swing state roots.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The room, on the street side of the house, could revert to a formal entry hall.
    — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The main pitfall on your path is the risk of reverting back to bad habits, so stay strong.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Rather, the savvy seller should make sure the other 2% reverts back to them.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Malaga will revert to normal speed when his wife or two children are in the car.
    — Sharon Waters, Wired, 1 Sep. 2020
  • In other words, why do some random walks revert to the mean and others do not?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2020
  • This will last for at least 2 years, and then the industry will revert to its old ways.
    — Neil Winton, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • If that happens again, the big moves higher for stocks and lower for bond yields may need to revert.
    — Stan Choe The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Find out what needs to happen on the publisher level for the rights to revert back to you.
    — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 24 July 2019
  • So the Biden-era rule in a way reverts back to the previous standard.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Even the president jumped in when the chain reverted back to its old logo.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • After 30 years the buildings would revert back to the city for $1.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 16 July 2021
  • Why did Richards stop being the aggressor and revert to old habits?
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Biden, notably, has not moved to revert back to the Obama-era policies.
    — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 13 July 2021
  • Some wanted the agency to revert back to Biden-era rules that tried to ban bets on elections.
    — Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
  • Once the streamer's license ends, the rights will revert back to Disney.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • One term of the deal is that that some of the movie’s rights will revert Coogler over the course of several decades.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The free access was set to revert from weekly to once a year at the start of 2023.
    — Kaitlyn Koterbski, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The effect hasn’t mean-reverted.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 June 2026
  • This can sometimes take months and requires keeping up with soil amendments so the plant doesn't revert back to its old hue.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 20 June 2026
  • But Wahls hasn’t given up hope that the Iowa Democrats can revert back to the base of yore.
    — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 28 June 2022
  • Alone and in pain, Carlson reverts back to a combat mindset and finds himself in a dark place.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • There are still times Stokes reverts back to his worst tendencies on the basketball court.
    — Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The cycle ends when the next period starts and would revert to 28 days within a month or two.
    — New York Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The plan is for Bubic to revert back to being a starter in 2025.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2025
  • If the business is not opened in 18 months, the property reverts back to the village.
    — Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2019
  • If the request runs against strong patterns in its training, the AI may still revert back.
    — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • However, the airline may soon revert back to its previous ways.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026

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