How to Use overhaul in a Sentence

overhaul

verb
  • The mechanic overhauled the car's engine.
  • They had to overhaul their original plans.
  • Lawmakers are overhauling the welfare program.
  • The design firm Three Sixty will overhaul the look of the space.
    Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Hood, who is 84, is at the forefront of a movement to overhaul healthcare.
    Jonathan Moens, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
  • Berry greatly overhauled it with his unique twists on rhythm and blues.
    Jim Farber, EW.com, 23 July 2024
  • By this time of the year, closets have been overhauled and swimsuits are out of storage.
    Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 31 May 2023
  • The last time Idaho overhauled its processes to this extent was in the 1980s.
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The president is expected to lay out his plan to overhaul the Supreme Court.
    Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 July 2024
  • What else is the state doing to overhaul its strained mental health system?
    Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Straight out of the box, the gadget overhauls the landscaping and all but amputates Gromit’s paws.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The bill would overhaul a law passed a few years ago when name, image and likeness laws were just starting.
    Jeffrey Collins, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Paris has spent $1.5 billion to clean up the Seine and overhaul its infrastructure over the past year or so.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
  • Any plan to overhaul the housing market needs to, first, confront the power of landlords to raise rents.
    Brian Callaci sandeep Vaheesan, Harvard Business Review, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Winker took the offseason to get his body into a better place and overhaul his swing.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The resources available to overhaul the roster are considerable, but the list of needs is long.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Take the rooms earmarked for seasonal staff, overhauled to the same standards as paying guests.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 15 June 2024
  • Prediction for the Paul-Diaz fight Paul has overhauled his team after the setback against Fury.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The French Oscar committee has been overhauled twice in recent years.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Tolbert overhauled his hitting approach and headed to Australia to gain more at-bats ahead of the 2023 season.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Joss Whedon then joined to not only finish the project, but overhaul entire portions of it.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • That was a senior-laden team, however, and the roster has been overhauled with six freshmen and four transfers.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Finally, Sennheiser has overhauled the design of the TW4 ear tips.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • That includes three of the past four — a trend that pushed Day to switch defense coordinators two games in and overhaul the staff in the offseason.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 30 July 2022
  • Crews continued to work to extinguish and overhaul the fire.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • These days, Dine Out Lauderdale doesn’t go far enough, which is why Ritter intends to overhaul the promotion in 2023.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
  • This involves how the nearshoring will overhaul the private sector in México and its impact on the US market.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • To avert a lawsuit, the city promised to overhaul the city’s police force, create a permanent memorial to the victims and pay $2 million, the lawyers said.
    J. David Goodman, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Photograph: Apple Apple overhauled its iMac back in 2021, but since then, the company has been refreshing this all-in-one computer with new processors and not much else.
    Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The quarterback also had two concussions during the 2022 season, and was suspected of having a third that year — a controversy that led the NFL to overhaul its protocol for sidelining players who are suspected of having a brain injury.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024

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