What is "rearrange"

Usage examples of "rearrange".

It seemed to Alvar that the furniture had been rearranged every time he came in here, in accordance with whatever sort of use to which the room was to be put--working office, meeting room, dinner reception, whatever.

She reached for the buttons, hastily rearranging them, and Eslingen looked away quickly as the bookholder called time.

Elaborately casual, he rearranged his breechclout and lit his pipe before walking over to an upended barrel of brandy and sticking his head into the broached end.

As the temperature falls, the iron atoms try to rearrange themselves into a ferrite structure, and the carbons get squeezed out and diffuse to carbon-rich zones.

All they needed was the slightest shift of their assemblage points, the slightest perceptual cue from their dreaming, and they would instantaneously stalk their perception, rearrange their cohesiveness to fit their new state of awareness, and be an animal, another person, a bird, or anything.

I tacked the valentine to his corkboard and rearranged his cocoon of blankets.

The prisoner wore his hair in greasy cornrows and slept on the floor with his back to Tom, and whenever he rearranged his limbs, which was often, he reminded Tom of a zoo animal, almost no trace left of pride in his movements, a languid choreography of animal defeat, a slack heavy lifer in his thirties or early forties with raised gray burn scars on his back and shoulders and silver psoriatic elbows.

A young engineer named Howland had been in charge of the development work, but Wally rearranged his forces so as to let each dummy entryman handle the claim entered in his name.

Imagine that rearranging the furniture in your living room could cause the roof to catch fire, or the paint on the basement walls to change color, and that putting out the fire or repainting could cause the doors to falloff and the furniture to reset to its original configuration.

Earlier, Sophie had rearranged this account number into the Fibonacci sequence.

Sounding distinctly amused, she busied herself rearranging the folds of her skirt with small, slender hands.

The cowhide furniture was rearranged, the windows dusted and curtains freshy washed.

George rearranged her arms and legs, caught the cube again and scanned it over her.

Johnny Skinhead both his horse and his old sword, personally helping the Ganik to rearrange both baldric and weapons belt to facilitate easy access for the left hand, and as they all headed south, the sometime prisoner rode with the mounted wounded, differing from them only in his nonuniform clothing, his long, straight sword in place of a saber and his lack of a firearm.

There was some fussing and rearranging to be made among the nobles and during this time Jon saw Nostradamus, after one long, searching look at Amabel in her chains, swivel his great head ponderously across the crowd in all directions.