How to Use retrofit in a Sentence

retrofit

verb
  • We can retrofit your car with the new fuel system.
  • The factory has been retrofitted to meet the new safety regulations.
  • But retrofitting a house of Airbnb’s sheer scale is no easy feat.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • And retrofitting each pumping station wouldn't be cheap or easy.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2018
  • For legacy cruise brands, the name of the game is retrofitting older ships.
    — Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Gross will even retrofit tents with add-on features like awnings or door flaps.
    — Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 7 June 2018
  • Pay the price the first time around so retrofitting won’t be needed in the future.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 June 2017
  • Trying to retrofit stuff, a lot of it hadn’t been done before.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Tanks have been retrofitted with cages and mesh to deflect drone strikes.
    — Holly Williams, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The school has spent millions of dollars retrofitting the buses.
    — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The price tag for retrofitting the buildings hasn’t yet been determined.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Most of those projects are retrofitting existing buildings.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The Braille is being added when the planes go in to be retrofitted.
    — Clara McMichael, ABC News, 27 July 2023
  • The original hasn't been erased but retrofitted for a new crowd and a new form.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • So it's already retrofitted out to hold a lot of people.
    — Greg Norman , Danamarie McNicholl , Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The state would need to spend hundreds of millions more dollars to retrofit its bridges.
    — David Gutman, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2019
  • And it is helped in city decisions about retrofitting old buildings or building new ones.
    — John Taggart, National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2018
  • But bat advocates fought to keep them open—and then retrofitted them for bats’ use.
    — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
  • Heat pumps are also great for retrofitting a home because they can be used with or without ducts in the floors or walls.
    — Tik Root, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Engineers have been retrofitting those canals with pumps to get water out of them even during high tides.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Among that roster of projects includes retrofitting the faulty boilers and turbines, records show.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The children can play outdoors in a prison yard retrofitted with a jungle gym.
    — Justin Jouvenal, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • So before a single work could be installed, the team had to retrofit the building.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 May 2026
  • After doing a bit of research, the pair bought an old hot dog cart and retrofitted it for tacos.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2024
  • All told, the city estimates as much as $4 billion could be spent on retrofitting buildings.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
  • Instead, the first thing that will come into view is a truck that has been retrofitted as a photo booth.
    — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • To meet this demand, airlines are retrofitting planes to add more premium cabin space.
    — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The shooting also spurred the district to retrofit its schools with secondary doors, buzzers and thick glass.
    — Katie Zezima and Susan Svrluga, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
  • To save the back and forth, consider hiring a plumber to retrofit your outdoor faucets to the frost-free type.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The shooting also spurred the district to retrofit some schools with secondary doors, buzzers and thick glass.
    — Katie Zezima, courant.com, 13 Dec. 2017

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