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
• The Braille is being added when the planes go in to be retrofitted.
  — Clara McMichael, ABC News, 27 July 2023
• The price tag for retrofitting the buildings hasn’t yet been determined.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2020
• The airline hopes to retrofit its entire mainline fleet by the end of 2026.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2023
• The cost to retrofit homes with a crawl space, on average, is about $5,200.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• Trying to retrofit stuff, a lot of it hadn’t been done before.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
• The next phase will test cool roofing, with GAF retrofitting a few homes and more to come if the test is successful.
  — Edwin Flores, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2024
• Rather than use the ball, the BMW and Mini cars retrofit the steering wheel with a ring that acts as the throttle.
  — Sami Haj-Assaad, Car and Driver, 5 June 2023
• 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
• United plans to retrofit its current fleet of single-aisle jets to match the amenities of the new ones by 2025.
  — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2021
• 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
• The airline will also be retrofitting Boeing 777s with the new seats – but without the same issue.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
• But there are some spices that keep cropping up when trying to retrofit the recipe. Allspice.
  — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2021
• An additional 404 buildings are in the process of retrofitting.
  — Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• 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
• But bat advocates fought to keep them open—and then retrofitted them for bats’ use.
  — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
• 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
• Engineers have been retrofitting those canals with pumps to get water out of them even during high tides.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 31 Jan. 2020
• It’s become common, Timmins said, to see cars speeding down the streets, and about half the fences have been built or retrofitted to sit flush against the ground.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024
• Many of the cooling towers Noya would retrofit do not provide this capture rate.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Of course, many Alabamians cannot afford to retrofit their homes.
  — Brian Hastings and Roy Wright, al, 27 Apr. 2021
• One big risk for New York City is a large number of older brick buildings that have not been retrofitted.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Many homes were built before the standards took effect, and state and federal grants to retrofit have been too low.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• How to retrofit the Spurs’ other All-Star into the team’s new order is another.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 14 Aug. 2020
• In addition to rehab and retrofit, which would extend the service life of the bridge by 50 to 60 years, the study looked at three other options.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2021
• There's also the Lexus UX300e that the company retrofitted with a fake manual shifter and clutch.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 15 June 2023
• According to Bloomberg, the capital costs tied to retrofitting cement plants could be significant.
  — Deena Zaidi, Quartz, 24 Sep. 2024
• Funded by a $5-million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the idea is to get homeowners to retrofit now, before the next devastating earthquake.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024