Example Sentences

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“Whatever we were re-enacting and recreating that she did in her life, if it was live, it’s like, ‘Well, let’s do it live.’

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2021

After all, they were re-enacting a classic study in the field.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2016

Given what they were re-enacting, perhaps it wasn’t meant to be.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2015

We were re-enacting for television the most testing stretches of Cook’s first voyage to Australia in 1770.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 12, 2011

At the memory of what had evidently been an exciting adventure, the man lapsed into silence, as though he were re-enacting the events in his mind.

From Bob Chester's Grit From Ranch to Riches by Webster, Frank V.