How to Use improve in a Sentence

improve

verb
  • Her writing has improved since the beginning of the school year.
  • The company has been having steadily improving sales.
  • The advertising campaign has improved sales.
  • Maybe we'll buy a house when our financial situation improves.
  • This operation will greatly improve her chances of survival.
  • There is no doubt room for the city to improve its schools.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The group was plagued by drops in 2022 and needed to improve.
    Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The defense wants and needs to improve over the second half.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The quality of the grass cows graze on has improved, and so has the beef.
    Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • This may seem like a long time, but the texture of the bread improves with a long knead time.
    Rick Martinez, Bon Appetit, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Here's a look at a few of the big changes that could improve your future flights.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Luc just wants to play golf with other boys, to be part of the team, and to improve his game.
    Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Piyasakol told reporters the health of all 13 had improved.
    NBC News, 14 July 2018
  • The purpose of cheating is to improve one’s stats and rise up the leaderboard.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Helping to boost your mood, improve your sleep and feel ready for life’s ups and downs.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 2 Jan. 2020
  • This, Health notes, is one way to improve your mental health, and that may be right.
    Sarah Conboy, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2018
  • This is an ongoing way for towns to improve towns in the ways the town decides.
    Kitty Leshay, Courant Community, 10 July 2018
  • That’s a good segue to one of our main challenges: retrofitting to improve public health.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Great size/speed ratio, needs to improve his feel in the passing game.
    Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Tap or click for a simple swap that could improve your speeds.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Things to improve Both teams had problems with turnovers.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Name one specific thing the city could do to improve them.
    Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The researchers plan to open-source this tool so that others can expand and improve on the work.
    Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And will the cold front improve the state’s air quality?
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Add plenty of compost to your soil to improve drainage.
    Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Louisville’s run defense is much improved from a year ago.
    Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Things will improve for a time and then go right back being a problem.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Most people want to improve themselves, but not too many want to work at it.
    Harvey MacKay, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • He has not been asked to do much pass protection, so that will need to improve.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 23 Jan. 2021
  • But the bigger goal is to improve overall lung health of infants.
    Byjon Cohen, science.org, 2 Nov. 2022

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