How to Use refurbish in a Sentence

refurbish

verb
  • Schools have been refurbished, and there are new shops on the main streets.
    — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Now, it has been lightly refurbished and prepped for sale.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Small updates are a great way to refurbish your kitchen and make the space feel new again.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Do not donate it or refurbish it.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025
  • These things are very old, and often need to be refurbished and rebuilt.
    — John Clarke, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The couple has not dared to refurbish the basement as planned.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • There were very few of them and they hadn’t been properly refurbished.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 15 Dec. 2025
  • There are also three pools, although those may have to be refurbished.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2025
  • If your device is still in good shape, then it'll be sold refurbished to someone else.
    — Amina Lake Abdelrahman, Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The hotel had long been refurbished, its floor plan altered, even its name changed.
    — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
  • At the time of our stay, the kitchen was being refurbished, so there was no room service.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The funds have been used to build and equip five schools and three kindergartens and refurbish a health clinic.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Mahavir refurbished a room in the village for the girls to wrestle in.
    — The Economist, 25 Oct. 2019
  • If there is still life in the device, the data is wiped and the item is refurbished for reuse.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • So Taylor worked to refurbish the sawmill and crack down on shady sourcing.
    — Tim McDonnell, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • The team refurbished the logs, which were covered up for decades but still in excellent shape.
    — Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Who will lay the railroad tracks, install the high-speed broadband and refurbish our ports?
    — Robert Rooks, CNN, 10 Dec. 2021
  • So far, about 92 cars have been refurbished and are back in service, Rink said.
    — Melanie Burney, Philly.com, 10 June 2018
  • In fact, many of the items in my own home have been refurbished and brought back to life thanks to those very tutorials.
    — Wendy Manwarren Generes, Country Living, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The bullpen must be refurbished this offseason.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • New and refurbished housing, retail and business space has helped.
    — Dana Afana, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The general store, the post office and the recreation hall have all been refurbished.
    — Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • There were two stations — one at Forest Hill has been refurbished and is still in use.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • His playoff legacy must be refurbished, though, and pressure mounts with each passing year.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • It was refurbished in 2012 and has also been serviced each of the last two years.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 May 2024
  • An antique wood door that the firm sourced locally and refurbished adds to the rustic beauty of the space.
    — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Items sourced for free from curbsides or bulk trash can often be cleaned, refurbished, and resold, sometimes within hours.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Older cruise ships are often sold, refurbished, and relaunched under new brands.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2026
  • Mast removed the 1950s belts and rotors, refurbished them and put them back.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • These days, Zhu is there on his own, the kitchen has been refurbished, and a homemade cookout on the roof is as wild as the scene gets.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2025

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