Example sentences for: re-enact

How can you use “re-enact” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The votaries smoke pot, watch test-crash footage, read journals of pathology, and re-enact celebrated accidents.

  • You will need more than a little imagination to re-enact the scene of 1,600–1,700 years ago from the knee-high rubble, but you will find help in the small museum attached to the site.

  • White novelist Richard Ford and black essayist Stanley Crouch re-enact Huck Finn and Jim's voyage down the Mississippi River and pen their respective reactions: Crouch rejoices that it's no longer anomalous for a black man and a white man to share a boat; but the trip leaves Ford unsettled about his own latent racism.

  • Rather than record the drama of Vietnam, Avedon invited his subjects--journalists, soldiers, aid workers, activists, and ordinary Vietnamese--to re-enact it.

  • What Americans do recall about Cagney they're likely to have picked up from imitators (including, of all people, Sammy Davis Jr.), who loved to mimic his nasal, rapid-fire delivery, and to re-enact that moment at the end of his films when he gets plugged with what seems like 300 bullets and reels theatrically for 12 minutes before dropping dead.


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