Example Sentences

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Suddenly, or so it seemed to many, the Hollywood patriarchy was reconstituting itself.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2021

In October 2019, she found that the Honduras network was reconstituting – and that there was little appetite from threat intelligence to take it down again.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2021

Both stylistically and thematically, “Caligari” imagined the splintering of the postwar German psyche, presenting a sense that reality itself had been destabilizing, and was reconstituting itself in jagged lines and oblique curlicues.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2017

When this excess caused him to pass gas under his thin blanket, he says, “it felt as if, far from digesting, the food was reconstituting itself into small, hard, foil-lidded oblong trays.”

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2010

The nation was reconstituting its whole life, and Washington was the capital of all the Allied peoples, their brazen serpent and their promise of salvation.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry