Example sentences for: renaming

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

  • One would expect that a certain amount of common sense be exercised: Palm Drive and Bougainvillea Boulevard would be as out of place in Massachusetts as Yucca Lane; with the devastation wrought by Dutch elm disease, one might consider renaming all the streets in America named Elm Street to describe a hardier species.

  • It eliminates loopholes that previously allowed gun manufacturers to evade restrictions by renaming or slightly altering their weapons.

  • Just inside the southern part of the ancient wall there is another street that has escaped renaming, although it commemorates a Fascist victory in the Italian-Ethiopian war.

  • Examples of this kind of national restoration of local names are the renaming of Stalinabad already mentioned and the renaming of the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

  • 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."


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