64 examples of re-writes in sentences

"You will have to re-write that play for me," she said, a little abruptly, as she paused before the companionway.

The controversies with Dr. Whewell, as well as much matter derived from Comte, were first introduced into the book in the course of the re-writing.

So I made the plan of developing and re-writing the other stories in like manner, and having them published under the title of 'Stories from the Lost Fairy-Book, Re-told by the Child Who Read Them.'

At the same time his deliverance was not effected by the fingering of the packet, but by the attack of the pirate: even the re-writing of the commission did nothing towards his deliverance, resulted only in the punishment of his traitorous companions.

He wrote his letters with great ease and rapidity: and having written them he very rarely had occasion to re-write them, though he often added insertions and interlineations, even in the most important official letters.

My business is not to re-write it clumsily but to read it humbly, and give Him thanks for it.

A year ago he lived in a garret re-writing his play Divorce.

'But did you not hear him say at dinner that he was re-writing as he rehearsed?

After one terrible night, in which he feared his brain was really giving way, he went down to the theatre and dismissed the company, for he had resolved to return to Ashwood and spend another autumn and another winter re-writing The Gipsy.

He saw an analogy between himself and the crazy inventor, and he asked himself if he would go on re-writing The Gipsy until he went out of his mind.

I hadn't reckoned that joining a fledgling nay, nascent publication as its Staff Reporter, with added responsibility of news-gathering in South Goa (which meant re-writing copy from mofussil correspondents who largely hailed from a vernacular background) would be so engrossing an affair that I ended up sending not a single Response Sheet to the Institute of Company Secretaries of India!]

Firstly, working with correspondents invariably meant that one would end up merely re-writing their stories and would not have much time to work on my own stories.

In those days, there was no re-writing desk and the sub-editors had to do all the dirty work of re-writing, editing and making a page.

In those days, there was no re-writing desk and the sub-editors had to do all the dirty work of re-writing, editing and making a page.

If I could see any way of getting rid of the objection, without re-writing it entirely, I would make some sacrifices.

He admits, in his note on the passage, that the change is "very plausible"; but adds, "If we can at will reduce a perfectly appropriate and uncorrupted word of ten letters to one of eight, and strike out such marked letters as h, l, and e, we may re-write Shakspeare at our pleasure."

He spent an afternoon writing and re-writing a lengthy letter, against the day when her address should come.

Better themes; a college textbook of writing and re-writing.

Better themes; a college textbook of writing and re-writing.

Mr. GEORGE MOORE is meditating a revised version of the story of JOSEPH and his Brethren, which in his opinion is sadly in need of re-writing, suffering as it does from an unsophisticated simplicity of diction and thought.

Such a position clearly involved a sharp conflict with conventional morals and in the fourteenth century, an attempt was made, in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, to re-write the Bhagavata Purana, magnifying Radha as leader of the cow-girls, disguising or rather denying her adultery and finally presenting her as Krishna's eternal consort.

The re-writing seems to have begun already.

Maybe a few flippant remarks about my private friends; but to withdraw them would be unmanly, unintellectual, and no one may re-write his confessions.

Then, like a coward, three years afterward, I tried to re-write itto show it to the world.

A change of mind in others, whether it is regarding an operation, or re-writing a letter, always injures the patient more than the being called upon to make up his mind to the most dreaded or difficult decision.

64 examples of  re-writes  in sentences