Example sentences for: rewritten

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

  • If we think of the prohibition against slavery and involuntary servitude as an affirmation of autonomy, then the passive sentence of the Thirteenth Amendment could be rewritten, without change of content, in the form of the German Basic Law:

  • By the time the affirmative action question got to the sixth candidate, Keyes, it was being completely rewritten.

  • Critics also like the way the story has been rewritten to add some psychological depth (it's now an Oedipal allegory).

  • Bernstein suggested that the recommendation not be eliminated, but rewritten to reflect the discussion.

  • Burton's imagery has an ecstatic intensity; it's too bad that the movie--loosely based on the Irving classic about a ghost who haunts New York's Hudson Valley in the decades after the American Revolution--has been constructed as a sort of proto- Hound of the Baskervilles . In the screenplay, credited to Andrew Kevin Walker ( Seven , 1995) but reportedly rewritten by Tom Stoppard, the schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is now a New York City constable (Johnny Depp) who travels upstate to solve a series of beheadings using the fledgling sciences of pathology and deduction.


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