Her hands were sinewy and contorted and she kept fidgeting, clasping and unclasping my makeup purse, and rearranging a stray curl that kept obscuring her view.
The greatest joy in life is to be found in arranging and rearranging a library, and I seem to be in for joy enough to kill.
As he is stroking his hair and rearranging his tie he talks in pantomime at himself in the glass.
I have tried to use up some minutes by rearranging my clothes, pulling up my socks, and tightening my belt; I have not yet investigated the workings of my bed, as I wish to leave that for a later excitement.
A young surgeon was rearranging their splints and bandages, and redressing their wounds.
She wondered, while rearrangingher hair, what day it was.
One evening, after the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things.
The rest of the preparations were postponed until Monday, and consisted of a thorough turning out of the room, and dusting and rearranging the models.
When St. John had closed the door after his father he walked into the studio and busied himself unnecessarily shifting back scenes and rearranging everything in order to work off the depression the recent interview had left behind.
This man, fond and happy, was actually addressing a glance of arch amusement at the girl who, flushed and disconcerted, sought to busy herself by rearranging his possessions.
In the barred shadow of the pasture-fence they rested from their exertions, she rearranging their bouquets of berries and tying them fast with grass-stems.
She bent her head, absently arranging, rearranging and shifting her bridle.
The advantage claimed for the system is facility in transferring and rearranging the exhibits.
A simple process is essential, for a man who is always pinning and moving pins, and rearranging wings and legs, is sure to remove a certain number of scales and spoil the appearance of the insect, besides utterly destroying its value.
Mr. Cummings had opened the slide at the back of the showcase and was absent-mindedly rearranging some boxes of pocket-knives and scissors.
Mr. Cummings turned back to his task of rearranging a number of carpenter’s squares in a green box and made no other reply for a moment.
Oh, it's Zanin's ideas, of course; but they neededrearranging and pointing up.
What it needed was clarifying and rearranging and building for climaxes.
For his bachelor girl play was swiftly, like magic, working itself out all new in his mind, actually taking form from moment to moment, arranging and rearranging itself nearer and nearer to a complete dramatic story.
There was a general shaking out andrearranging of tousled manes, yellow and chestnut and black, and a modest dropping of skirts to the demurer level of shining wet knees.
So greatly indeed is this preference growing in me that, keenly as I love it, I find my English landscape already rearranging itself in my memory.
Such a ridiculous thing to think of," repeated the haughty mistress with emphasis, as she swept from room to room giving orders to each domestic, and arranging and rearranging matters to meet her own taste and convenience.
As Evelyn stood amid the heap of boxes, arranging and rearranging the delicate fabrics to her heart's content, she was not an object of envy.
She moved restlessly, rearranging the pillows--returning impatiently into the illusion, feeling herself always in his arms.
Trimble, the stage-manager, was in the center of the stage, rearranging a scene with the soubrette and the heavy comic.
Too ashamed to face any one just then, and afraid that her guilty face would betray the fact to Phil and Lloyd that she shared their secret, she hurried out of the library and up to her room, where Joyce was rearranging her hair.
He came out of his abstraction and began to think, arranging and rearranging a pile of letters before him, convinced at last that the situation was of the highest seriousness.
He hesitated, rearrangingthe sheets on the desk before him.
Duke Cosimo had ceased to inhabit the Palace of the Medici, and had returned with his Court to live in the Palace in the Piazza, which was formerly occupied by the Signoria; and this he was daily rearranging and adorning.
She drew the bowl of yellow daisies and pink-white mountain holly from the center of the table, and fell to rearranging them.
After tea, as he watched his wife clearing away the tea things and rearranging the drying clothing by the fire, Owen for the first time noticed that she looked unusually ill.
Presently he returned to the fire and began rearranging the clothes that were drying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rearranging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
