Example sentences for: rewriting

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

  • The 10,000 alleged improvements include punctuating Molly Bloom's famous monologue and rewriting knotty sentences.

  • Yes, editor Gordon Lish used a heavy hand in shaping Carver's early voice (rewriting long passages, violently cutting text, changing the tone).

  • Of course, I'm rewriting history here.

  • Surely that reflects altered reporting standards, not a seven-year surge in sadistic adults (just as the implausible Justice Department discovery that teen-age drug use doubled in one year reflected a radical rewriting of the survey that year, as the Wall Street Journal pointed out).

  • But the benefits of the new technologies--ultimately, immortality and the rewriting of the recipe for human beings--are precisely what philosophers ought to ponder.


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