Example Sentences

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“So when playing a game about that period you are not learning anything about it — you are re-enacting it.”

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

Pupils at a County Durham school are re-enacting a football game said to have taken place during the 1914 Christmas ceasefire of World War One.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2014

In Hamlet’s play within a play actors are re-enacting the murder of his father.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2014

Somewhere on a rooftop in London's West End, in the heady Summer of 1998 , a hard-working team of graphic designers are re-enacting the terrestrial gait of the pterosaur Ornithocheirus.

From Scientific American • Dec. 27, 2013

In play and games the young are re-enacting these old muscular coordinations and developing mind and body on the old foundation.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous