How to Use remedial in a Sentence

remedial

adjective

• Thirty percent of the new students need remedial classes in math.
• He's taking a course in remedial reading.
• Officials have pledged remedial action to repair damaged bridges.
• That's the first lesson – a remedial one, perhaps – from the 2022 campaign.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022
• But the other two officers at the scene of the shooting, Pegues and Beckles, were sent to remedial training.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 12 Aug. 2021
• The first two officers who arrived at Parker’s home on the day of the shooting were sent to remedial training.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 10 June 2021
• The court gave the legislature two weeks to draw new maps and submit them to a lower court, which will select a remedial plan.
  — Ethan Cohen, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
• Thompson’s ruling four years ago started a remedial phase of the mental health portion of the case.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 25 May 2021
• Prep the pot roast, scrub the bathtub spotless, take remedial ballet lessons or lay by the communal pool.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• Now, the back half of the park is closed for the winter—and without the remedial gravel hauled in, the area around the landslide will deteriorate rapidly.
  — Time, 7 Sep. 2021
• The judges assigned a special master to oversee the remedial map.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• The site has and is being addressed in two stages: initial actions and a long-term remedial phase focusing on cleanup of the entire site.
  — Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
• However, the other two officers — the ones who didn’t shoot a man in the face — were assigned to remedial training.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 27 May 2021
• Most of Bourne's 90-day suspension – 75 days – was held in abeyance for one year given that Bourne followed the remedial measures required by the court.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2023
• In fact, Darby returned to work, and the city sent the other two officers for remedial training.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 8 Nov. 2022
• But the first two other officers on the scene that day, Genisha Pegues and Justin Beckles, were sent for remedial training.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 5 May 2021
• And the shift linkage has all the obstinate qualities of a spoiled brat, badly in need of a solid course in remedial manners.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 26 Jan. 2023
• The descriptions are easy enough for kids to follow but not so remedial an adult will lose interest.
  — James Patrick, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• While trying to place a Black kid in a remedial class isn't the same as ghoulish creatures dragging a Black man to the depths of the sea, the white ignorance turns nightmarish quickly.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 25 Mar. 2022
• Three were fired and the fourth was suspended and ordered to attend remedial training.
  — Micaela A Watts, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• This is why over half of first-year community-college students in the U.S. take at least one remedial course in reading or math.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2021
• The bill spells out no enforcement or remedial mechanism to be applied either by the court or the counsel.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• This 35-year-old program is a far cry from remedial math worksheets indoors.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
• Some business groups have opposed the effort, citing the costs of such remedial measures.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Nearly half the school’s students were white, but the freshman remedial math classes were made up of almost all students of color.
  — Maura Turcotte, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Lawmakers had been ordered by Wisconsin’s highest court to draw new maps by the 2024 election or else the court would adopt its own remedial maps.
  — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The same internal review board that cleared Darby sent Pegues and the second officer on the scene to remedial training.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 20 Apr. 2022
• In response to the court ruling, lawmakers approved remedial plans in 2017 in a vote along party lines, with the Black Caucus opposed.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 15 Oct. 2021
• Yet, even English teachers aren’t trained to teach phonics and other remedial skills beyond the early grades.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• But instead of starting with remedial courses, Overton jumped straight into math at the college level, with the aid of a one-hour course meant to help her be successful.
  — Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024