REBUILD in a Sentence

Learn REBUILD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

27 example sentences for REBUILD, such as:

1. I relish the challenge of rebuilding the club.
2. The agency has been rebuilding under new management.
3. The company is making every effort to rebuild its business.
4. They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined.
5. Yet that same evening she had an idea which solved the rebuilding of Gopher Prairie.

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 Meanings and Examples of REBUILD
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rebuild
 v.  build again
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The ones who come back last won't find a stick or stone or brick of their houses, because everybody's out salvaging things all over town to rebuild their houses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  Mrs. Meade and the doctor had lost their home when the Yankees fired the town and they had neither the money nor the heart to rebuild, now that Phil and Darcy were dead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  And Pierre decided that the steward's proposals which had so pleased him were wrong and that he must go to Petersburg and settle his wife's affairs and must rebuild in Moscow.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIII
4  Though the position was now altered by his decision to pay his wife's debts and to rebuild his houses, Pierre still maintained that he had become three times as rich as before.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVII
5  To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
6  They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
7  The Yankees burned so many houses here and there aren't enough for people to live in and it looks like folks have gone crazy about rebuilding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  She could see for herself how quickly the town was rebuilding and anyone who could establish a lumber business now, when there was so little competition, would have a gold mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  Underneath the surface were misery and fear, but all the outward appearances were those of a thriving town that was rapidly rebuilding from its ruins, a bustling, hurrying town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  The wave of rebuilding was giving her the opportunity she wanted and she knew she could make money if only she could stay out of jail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  In addition to the Carpetbag gentry, substantial people from the North were moving into Atlanta, attracted by the never ceasing business activity of the town in this period of rebuilding and expansion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  Yet that same evening she had an idea which solved the rebuilding of Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
14  And in rebuilding it they could not this time, as before, make use of the fallen stones.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
15  He saw ahead of him the heavy labour of rebuilding the windmill from the foundations, and already in imagination he braced himself for the task.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
Example Sentence:
1  When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.
2  The company is making every effort to rebuild its business.
3  It's very hard for battered women to rebuild their lives without a good support network.
4  They say they will stay to rebuild their homes rather than retreat to refugee camps.
5  Despite ambitious plans to rebuild them as replicas, much more basic and urgent is the shoring up of the cliff face, which is in danger of collapsing, and simply collecting and protecting the remaining fragments of the statues.
6  He unveiled a plan to rebuild southern Damascus, including areas that run along the camp's edge; some suggest relocating the Palestinians to distant scrubland.
7  The agency has been rebuilding under new management.
8  I relish the challenge of rebuilding the club.