How to Use rehabilitate in a Sentence

rehabilitate

verb
  • The city plans to rehabilitate its slum areas.
  • The country has rehabilitated its image since the war.
  • He's still rehabilitating the knee he injured last summer.
  • They try to rehabilitate horses that have suffered injuries.
  • The clinic rehabilitates drug addicts.
  • The program is intended to rehabilitate criminals.
  • Healthy cities must build new things and rehabilitate old ones.
    — Emily Badger, New York Times, 1 July 2023
  • After the mine closed, no moves were made to rehabilitate the land.
    — Yan Zhuang Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In the souk in the center of town, some aid groups have begun to rehabilitate shops.
    — Raja Abdulrahim Nicole Tung, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The new design will feature two new pools and rehabilitate the site’s pool house.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • At the same time, crews will rehabilitate the bridge at Lake and Spruce roads.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And the rest of the guys kind of rehabilitated their careers there.
    — Emily Caron, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The diocese now has three years to rehabilitate and reopen the church.
    — Megan Janetsky, azcentral, 21 June 2018
  • Sign vets, rehabilitate their value, and flip them for more picks and young players.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Which were rehabilitated, and who runs them and on what basis?
    — Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026
  • That shows us that people age out of crime and many have done the work to rehabilitate after decades behind bars.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Mohammed has sought to rehabilitate his standing on the world stage.
    — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Our goal is to rehabilitate with the intent to release back into the wild.
    — Rebecca Hazen, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2019
  • The prospect of dealing with the pain and having to rehabilitate the injury felt scary.
    — Angela Ruggiero, Contributor, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
  • State officials say this is the fourth young cub in the past five years that’s been brought in to be rehabilitated.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025
  • Woodruff missed all last year and the first half of this season rehabilitating from shoulder surgery.
    — John Perrotto, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Some athletes that were injured now have the time to rehabilitate and some who were healthy and ready to go could get injured.
    — Christine Burroni, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Orput believes that the thefts are so easy to commit that the best way to stop them is to help rehabilitate the addicts.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 15 June 2019
  • There was a belief that prison or jail could rehabilitate a criminal.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Local officials have shelled out millions to rehabilitate the creek and add a mile-long park on its banks.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2019
  • But Patrick Gire made it, and spent the next nine months rehabilitating.
    — Sam Lounsberry, The Denver Post, 26 June 2019
  • But that changed with the city’s passage of two sales tax measures to help rehabilitate its 65 miles of streets.
    — Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Charlton, who leads the team with four sacks, has been rehabilitating a right elbow injury for the past two weeks.
    — Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • In our view, the best way to keep the public safe and rehabilitate young offenders is to treat them in ways that reflect their age.
    — Jay Blitzman, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
  • Most of that will help rehabilitate historic buildings there.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2025

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