How to Use rehouse in a Sentence

rehouse

verb
  • The organization is working to rehouse families who were displaced in the fire.
  • For 15 years, she's nursed them back to health and rehoused them in the US.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But the effort to rehouse migrants on the barge has been beset with problems.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Many wonder if the government will keep its promise to rehouse them in the same district.
    — Sabra Ayres, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
  • More than 30 cats have been rehoused after putting their best paws forward at Moon Cat.
    — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • That’s a daunting number of new people to rehouse in any city, but Tulsans weren’t worried.
    — Lizzy Saxe, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • People also fear they could be rehoused in areas far from public transportation.
    — Marc Bennetts, Newsweek, 22 May 2017
  • The land of the free has a proud history of resettling refugees from far-off places, rehousing many more than any other country.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2019
  • Most of the surviving families are still living in hotels, waiting to be rehoused.
    — Anna Codrea-Rado, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Carpenter bees are very resilient and can be difficult to rehouse, Basham explains.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024
  • And Dallas may soon offer more rapid rehousing aid for families living on the brink of homelessness.
    — Obed Manuel, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
  • Some mayors in the region have complained openly about not getting enough funding to rehouse thousands who still remain displaced in the region.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Concerns around the stand’s structural integrity must be addressed in the coming days or there will be a need to rehouse thousands of season ticket holders.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • It was rehoused in the Chicago Sports Museum, and not long after, the Sox started to lose.
    — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Amid the pandemic, Fiji has needed to rehouse families because of erosion from climate change.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Those rehoused, Mr Zhao thinks, end up with a new house, no savings, no job and 600 yuan a year of income support—not nearly enough to live on.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Now, their vacation homes -- including a castle in Ireland -- are being used to rehouse people who have lost everything.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The upshot is that they are rehoused—or, rather, housed—in a small rural community, with a school for Tom and a job, felling Christmas trees, for Will.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
  • The Facebook post announced the humane society would soon take in 10 more chickens, though staff are now working to get those chickens rehoused instead.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2024
  • An outreach worker helped Allen chart a course back into permanent housing, helping to rehouse 10 cats from the encampment.
    — Kansas City Star, 12 May 2026
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May said after the fire that every resident would be rehoused in three weeks.
    — Sarah Tilotta, CNN, 13 June 2018
  • This is feeding fears that instead of living in low-rises homes in green, residential spaces in Moscow they’ll be rehoused in vast skyscrapers on the outskirts of the city.
    — Henry Meyer, Bloomberg.com, 14 May 2017
  • Students are being rehoused after a bat infestation was discovered in an NAU dorm.
    — The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Dallas’ recent investments to tackle homelessness have been aimed at rehousing people living in public spaces.
    — Devyani Chhetri, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Thornhill said four total RV-dwelling households had been chosen as candidates for housing and offered rapid rehousing rent subsidies.
    — Lucy Hodgman, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Another was rehoused after initially being housed in a basement apartment with a rotting bathroom floor, mice, and dangerous electrical hook-ups, the review said.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • The city was devastated during fighting in 2022, and authorities have rehoused some locals.
    — David Lewis, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But, services for rehousing and eviction prevention funded by HUD aren't available to everyone.
    — al, 7 Feb. 2020
  • In general only those deemed to be in vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, very young and people with serious health problems are eligible for rehousing on the mainland.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • On homelessness, Porter wants more interim housing, emergency rental assistance and rapid rehousing programs.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026

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