Example sentences for: renaming

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

  • Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.

  • First they said they stood for "choice," then they changed their name to "pro-choice," and finally they obliterated the debate's physical substance by renaming it "the choice issue."

  • But the city board eventually compromised, renaming just the few blocks of Markham Street around the library after the president--a plan the mayor said he came to embrace after asking himself, "What would Jesus do?"

  • In 1453, they took Constantinople, and immediately made it their capital, renaming it Istanbul.

  • The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 amended the PRA, renaming and elevating former information resources manager positions to executive-level CIOs who report directly to the agency head and have information management as a primary responsibility.


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