Example Sentences

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With the insurgents’ victory in that 20-year war secured this summer, Gulab, now a high-level commander, was sitting with me in Marjah’s government headquarters, a mess of a building the Americans had refurbished years ago.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2021

Osaka had refurbished courts in her old Jamaica neighborhood and Adams had brought along her girls players for the clinic.

From Fox News • Sep. 7, 2021

After the war, they drove West in a trailer George had refurbished himself; the family “passed horses on the prairie, and George caught one for Linda.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 8, 2017

It wasn't clear what prompted the warning or how the potential failure was discovered, or whether it applied to all duck boats or only those that the company had refurbished, he said.

From US News • Sep. 28, 2015

A group exhibition he organized in 1978 began as an empty gallery space that he and another artist, Peter Nadin, had refurbished.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2011