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.
• 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
• After the mine closed, no moves were made to rehabilitate the land.
  — Yan Zhuang Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Healthy cities must build new things and rehabilitate old ones.
  — Emily Badger, New York Times, 1 July 2023
• The city wants public input on the future of the 56-year-old icon: Repair it, rehabilitate it or replace it?
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
• After all, the premise of much of this year’s coverage — did the Globes rehabilitate themselves?
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• There’s the need to de-mine huge areas of the country, and to rehabilitate agricultural land.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• The department deemed now the time to rehabilitate portions of Ohio 562 to prevent any danger in the future.
  — The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
• The team will then decide if Wesley can rehabilitate the injury and return to the field, or if surgery will be required.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• Many of the birds had been rehabilitated by the center, others the product of its breeding program.
  — Gertrude Kitongo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
• The actor was seen rehabilitating his leg by using it to pedal with the assistance of a pole-like tool.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Mar. 2023
• The media can rehabilitate its image in the eyes of a suspicious public by deepening its ties to the elites.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
• The only effective long-term answer is of course to build and rehabilitate more housing — a lot more.
  — Ben Harris, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• Climate change will drive many projects to rehabilitate, repair, and retrofit much of what already exists in the world.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2023
• The tunnel is constructed out of brick and stone masonry, and it was last rehabilitated in the 1980s.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• Laura made the decision to help rehabilitate her mother, and the duo began going on walks near the beach in Los Angeles.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
• Morgan Wallen has been trying to rehabilitate his career after he was caught on video in 2021 using a racist and anti-Black slur.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
• The tribe will recreate and rehabilitate 41 acres along the Colorado River that have become choked with invasive plants.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
• All of it vexed the town’s mayor, who has sought to rehabilitate the town’s image and put it on the map as a destination of Jewish significance.
  — David I. Klein, Sun Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2022
• Loftin implored the court to give Crumbley a chance to be rehabilitated and let a parole board determine his progress years from now.
  — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
• As its new term commences, the question remains whether the court will be able to rehabilitate its public image or continue to see an erosion of trust.
  — Cooper Burton, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• The rookie played 31 snaps in the first two games, then injured an ankle and missed the next two games, trying to rehabilitate the ankle to be ready if Indianapolis needed him.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2022
• The Carters were in town to kick off the Sandtown Habitat for Humanity campaign to rehabilitate 100 vacant homes.
  — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
• The possibility of killing the rabbits prompted her to ask the city to instead capture and rehabilitate the rabbits.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024