How to Use reorient in a Sentence

reorient

verb
  • But don't remove a tree or reorient your yard just because of a little shade.
    — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 2 May 2026
  • The shape of work has morphed and reoriented countless times in the past.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The longer-term question is how an event like this may reorient the town’s identity.
    — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The piece would be easy to reorient — rotate the rod, thread it through another hole.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Think of a robot that can walk back and forth and sideways with equal ease, without having to reorient.
    — New Atlas, 9 June 2026
  • The justices reorient to the latest appointee and, in turn, to each other.
    — Melissa MacAya, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The first camera shot, to reorient their viewers to the new storyline?
    — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2026
  • How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Stede try to put himself back together and both reorient themselves.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Like his forebears and theirs, rapping was a means to reorient his trajectory.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Firms that produce or are willing to reorient towards the local market will find more success.
    — Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • As the war takes a deeper toll on her family, the kindness of strangers keeps her alive and reorients her entire worldview in the process.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2024
  • All of them emerge from the series reoriented and refreshed, though still with much respect paid to Austen herself.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 May 2026
  • Since then, Google has reoriented the company to win the AI wars.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Cats can reorient themselves within a couple of feet, kick-starting the process within a fraction of a second.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Countries, markets, or entire industries might make a sudden shift that require the team to reorient their goals.
    — Tsedal Neeley, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2021
  • But over the past decade, these firms reoriented themselves around their stock price, likely because their executives now own a lot of it.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 June 2025
  • The kind of production that reorients my gaze and opens up my heart to possibilities in life and cinema.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The changes meant that Donnelly had to reorient her portrayal of Joan with just a few weeks of rehearsal.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Andor reorients that fantasy in the service of something greater than itself.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Now, the award for Fosse confirms that the Nobel has reoriented.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • So in the long-term, no one is going to completely reorient their operations based on what’s happening over the last week.
    — Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • In the course of the war, a lot of factories had been reoriented to produce armaments, which meant consumer goods were in short supply.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Crisis was quickly averted before any photos were taken as the milliner reoriented his creation atop her head.
    — Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
  • His family reoriented their lives around his passion, traveling hours across the region just to find ice time and coaching.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Groups that had spent decades fighting for gay rights reoriented around an issue that was still not familiar to most Americans.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Without a rigid crystal structure getting in the way, the magnetic domains can reorient much more freely when the magnetic field changes.
    — Etiido Uko march 17, New Atlas, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Meta Platforms is now down nearly 5% on the week, as it again is said to be reorienting its AI efforts.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The study authors suspect insects rely on the glow emanating from stars, planets and the moon to reorient themselves.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • An early decision to reorient the structures—to capture broader views and buffer the beach access road—proved pivotal.
    — David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2026

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