How to Use re-create in a Sentence

re-create

verb
  • The scene of the crime was re-created based upon police photographs.
  • The movie set re-creates a London street of 1895.
  • And yes, the pair is hoping to re-create the iconic photo on the big day.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
  • To re-create the look at home, start with a smoothing base coat, like Chanel La Base Camelia.
    — Elle Turner, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2025
  • To re-create the just-baked taste, simply warm a piece of cake in the microwave for about 10 seconds.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The truth is that Colossal didn’t re-create the dire wolf of prehistoric times.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Go with a warm runner to re-create this effect in your home.
    — Katie Akin, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The curtain, the color of the room — I re-created the room from memory.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
  • And so the Wyoming State Crime Lab was able to have an artist come in and use the skull as a form of re-creating what … this victim looked like.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024
  • Fineman then re-created a scene from the first episode where Tedros wrapped her robe around her face.
    — Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 11 June 2023
  • In the latest season of Fargo, one scene is re-created from the 1996 movie on which the show is based—but with a twist.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The play attempts to re-create the experience of living in the refugee camp.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2023
  • And if Small could re-create a home from another movie?
    — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The remake re-creates and enhances that loudness and chaos.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The specialty room is also the ideal place to re-create the movie poster with a green robe and pair of white slippers.
    — Partner Content, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
  • What has been your favorite video of someone re-creating the dance?
    — Leigh Scheps, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The aim was to document every building and feature in the park and re-create them with Lego bricks.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 22 June 2025
  • Over the years, Ghostbusters fan groups around the world had perfected the art of re-creating props for cosplay.
    — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
  • One of the major projects outside was re-creating a rear porch that had been removed.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Moore’s program would be re-created to look like Maryland Corps and take its name.
    — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2023
  • That question became the catalyst for a decade-long project to re-create Richard III's voice.
    — Patrick Wood, NPR, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Readers know how the story ends, but Melber’s just-the-facts narrative re-creates the tension of the events as they were lived.
    — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • No wonder people try to re-create a little of that magic in their yards.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • To re-create the look, prep your dresser by sanding, cleaning, and priming.
    — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2023
  • The highlight of the movie comes later in the same scene, when Stone and Gosling re-create Dirty Dancing’s most famous moment (with the help of a body double).
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 23 July 2025
  • Everybody tries to re-create it in various parts of the country and the world with mixed success.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 9 July 2025
  • The image was part of a project that used staged photographs to re-create the story of how Markosian, who was born in Moscow, came to the United States.
    — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
  • It was made to re-create that feeling of scoring the most perfect-fitting—and -feeling—vintage T-shirt.
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The sheer scope of re-creating Paris in the 1700s for one episode is not lost on Mastrantonio and Pegoretti.
    — Carita Rizzo, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The festival grounds, called the Village of Hollygrove, are set up to re-create a Renaissance-era European town.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 22 Aug. 2025

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