How do you use the word "change" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "change": It would be fun to see how things change over the years. What made you change your mind?

Change Meaning

/ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo become something different.

verbTo make something into something else.

Sentence Examples

It would be fun to see how things change over the years.

What made you change your mind?

We're hoping for a change in the weather.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

vary alter modify

Antonyms:

stay

CEFR Practice Quiz

The scientist decided to ____ the experiment's temperature to see if results would differ.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We need to ____ our plans if we want to finish the project on time.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre (“to exchange, barter”), derived from the noun cambium (“change”) (whence was loaned the English doublet cambium), from Gaulish cambion, earlier *kambyom (“change”), related to Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂(e)mbos, *(s)kh₂(e)mbos (“crooked”). More at skimp, scam; see also Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-. Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced Middle English wenden, from wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence wend). The noun is from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, from the verb changier. See also exchange. Possibly related from the same source is Old English gombe.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Lo I the man, whoſe Muſe whilome did maske, As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforſt a far unfitter taske, For trumpets ſterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds, And ſinge of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds[…]" — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1:

"KORRIS: They shunned you. Cursed you. Called you vile names, and you knew not why. Even now do you know why you are driven? Why you cannot relent—or repent—or confess—or abstain? How could you know? There have been no other Klingons to lead you to that knowledge. WORF: Yes—yes—those feelings are still a part of me, but I control them. They do not rule me. KORRIS: Yes, to fit in, the humans demand you change the one thing that you cannot change. But because you cannot—you do. That too is the mark of the warrior." — 1988 March 21, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

"Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything." — 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:

"Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale." — 2013 July–August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

"Towards the end of the nineteenth century, boys who had pretended soldiers down through the centuries, now changed their pikes and swords for toy pistols." — 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 193:

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