How to Use restore in a Sentence

restore

verb
  • The police restored law and order.
  • The government needs to restore confidence in the economy.
  • The second part of that is the idea of restaurants being places to restore.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Looking ahead, the team plans to restore and study the coins in the hope of learning more about their origins.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Updated with the news that episode 50 has been restored and three more episodes are in progress.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
  • If an artery is blocked, a whole body part may turn blue, and unless the blood flow is quickly restored, the body part can die.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 26 May 2023
  • Part Two to restore your faith in big-budget, big-screen moviegoing.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The ruling marks the second time the suits, filed in 2013, were restored after being dismissed.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The move makes good on Iger’s promise to restore dividend payments, which have been on pause for the past three years.
    J. Clara Chan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The ads were restored days later, but Hallmark has been playing catch-up since.
    Haley Strack, National Review, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The share price has more than doubled this year, restoring some value lost since its peak in early 2021.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2023
  • His emotions were overridden and the old dress code restored.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The idea for Ever’s third-act epiphany to restore order after chaos is given to her by Xavier.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
  • These cars are not highly sought after, and very few people have the skills or patience to restore them.
    Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 10 July 2023
  • But when Michael Douglas moves through the room, the old glamour is fleetingly restored.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The painting is currently in the hands of the Van Gogh Museum, whose experts will help restore it.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Email address: At $15 million, the state’s fund for restoring land is at its lowest level in more than 20 years.
    Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Part of their work involves restoring old varieties of fruit crops and breeding new ones.
    Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The pledge commits cities toward restoring monarch habitats at parks and green spaces.
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The big raises come after the city restored pensions for all city workers last summer.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • Charlie Grant is trying to secure the money to restore the building but hasn’t found the same support as St. George.
    Jeffrey Collins, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The ambition now is to recruit otters to help restore the ecological health of a much wider swath of the West Coast.
    Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Touma said her agency had not been able to confirm that water, or some water, had been restored.
    Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Six months since the quake, almost no homes have been rebuilt and no services, like water or sewer, have been restored.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The actors swap places, and once reality-of-a-sort is restored, Olfa begins to cry.
    Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • After the war, the painting was restored to its original glory.
    Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 17 June 2023
  • In addition to tearing down the dams, the project involves restoring about 2,200 acres of reservoir bottom to a natural state.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • There are about 10 cars that are currently being restored.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Nothing that can be done, not even the terrible death penalty, will restore life to the primary victim.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But, thanks to her mother using DIY rice water treatments in her hair, Twine’s tresses were restored over time.
    Tira Urquhart, Essence, 26 Mar. 2024

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