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
  • The prospect of dealing with the pain and having to rehabilitate the injury felt scary.
    — Angela Ruggiero, Contributor, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In the near term, the city expects to rehabilitate the pier's dock walls, secure the site and open it to possible freight use.
    — Dee Depass, Star Tribune, 11 Dec. 2020
  • After the mine closed, no moves were made to rehabilitate the land.
    — Yan Zhuang Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The City Council agreed to spend about $11.2 million to buy and rehabilitate the motel, which was described as in poor shape at the time.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • Some athletes that were injured now have the time to rehabilitate and some who were healthy and ready to go could get injured.
    — Christine Burroni, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • At the time, Ball was given a six-to-eight-week window to rehabilitate from surgery and rebuild strength.
    — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • His new role at Boeing is the final chance to rehabilitate the image of GE Man.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The show aims not just to rehabilitate Lethière as an artist but also to tell the story of a remarkable life.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
  • Healthy cities must build new things and rehabilitate old ones.
    — Emily Badger, New York Times, 1 July 2023
  • One of the animals Friends of Texas Wildlife helps rehabilitate is the bald eagle.
    — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Still rehabilitating is Cam Latu, a 2023 third-round pick who has a year’s worth of mental reps and still must prove himself on the field.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
  • The Mitchells bought The Galvez in 1993 and rehabilitated the property.
    — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • The pup appeared to be alone and badly injured, so one hiker took him home and tried to rehabilitate him, Younger said.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
  • 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
  • Many are Black or brown, and the White House said each has displayed efforts to rehabilitate themselves.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Is all this enough for the next decade until the BQE is fully rehabilitated?
    — Sam Schwartz, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Charlton, who leads the team with four sacks, has been rehabilitating a right elbow injury for the past two weeks.
    — Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Gascón, a criminal justice reformer, found that the brothers had been rehabilitated after 35 years behind bars.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
  • As an icon of entertainment for the last several decades, Smith is still, for many, rehabilitating his reputation after the shocking moment at the 2022 Academy Awards.
    — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2025

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