How to Use retrain in a Sentence

retrain

verb
  • He retrained as a mechanic.
  • The organization retrains people who have lost their jobs.
  • He is retraining for another job.
  • Other shrubs will need to be trimmed to the ground and retrained.
    Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Jan. 2018
  • But there’s been less focus on the need to retrain the C-Suite.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 5 June 2019
  • The best way to retrain your co-worker is to take all the fun out of it.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Ball said the young man’s death in her shop pushed her to retrain her staff.
    Rachel Alexander, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 2018
  • People are going to be thrown out of work and will need to be retrained.
    The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Like many East German women, his wife retrained and left for a job in the west.
    The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Over the course of a year, Miller and her three colleagues retrained the entire workforce.
    Andy Marso, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Even people in their 40s and 50s might be able to retrain themselves and switch.
    Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2021
  • But they can be retrained by exposure to the tone without the shock.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2019
  • What if the best way to treat your chronic back pain is by retraining your brain?
    Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Sorenson’s Ranch School must retrain its staff and abide by state rules or close.
    Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The Wyoming project seeks to retain — and retrain — many of the workers from a retiring coal plant.
    Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The design teams can then modify the graph and retrain the system.
    David A. Teich, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • To retrain your brain, dedicate a block of time to work on a single task.
    Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Chief Bill Scott ordered Tiffe to be admonished for the lapse and retrained.
    Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The school district has paid for sheriff’s deputies at the charter schools for the first 60 days of school so the schools will be covered as the guardians get retrained.
    Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Barentine lurched to retrain the workers to manage the cars alone.
    Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Many grape growers cut down their vines and retrained them from their root systems.
    Eric Degerman, idahostatesman, 14 Apr. 2017
  • What is your plan for retraining workers whose jobs are at risk?
    NBC News, 31 July 2019
  • And workers who take the risk of starting a new career, retraining at my age.
    Time Staff, Time, 8 May 2017
  • The most important thing to remember is that retraining your brain is more of a marathon and not a sprint.
    Seena Mathew, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Even with the fix approved, airlines will need time to retrain pilots before getting the planes off the ground again.
    Dallas News, 24 June 2019
  • And retraining the models and other methods to stop the decay didn’t help.
    Katie Palmer, STAT, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Or, retrain your pet to go elsewhere, in an area that’s not as visible or that's mulched with rock or wood chips.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 11 July 2023
  • Though, it should be noted, the fountains have not joined the labor force and been retrained to become, say, baristas.
    David Montero, latimes.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • But of course Hannah can’t be bumbling around her house with her eyes covered all the time, so Oliver comes up with a plan to help retrain her brain re: her kids.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Since then, Vásquez said he’s retrained all his employees at the restaurant on proper hand-washing procedures as well as sanitation and dishwashing policies.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024

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