How to Use renovate in a Sentence

renovate

verb

• We renovated the kitchen three years ago.
• It's an old factory that has been renovated as office space.
• The project renovates and expands the square footage of the school.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• The firm plans to renovate it and add restaurant space.
  — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2022
• Even the press box was renovated with a new floor and chairs.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• One of the features of the home, the outdoor kennel, left her stumped as to how to renovate it.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
• Painter moved out only after the landlord made plans to renovate the unit and raise the rent.
  — Renuka Rayasam, CNN, 30 Nov. 2022
• That is, buying a cheaper home and renovating just to get your foot in the door.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 7 Feb. 2024
• The trio plan to renovate the house to suit a gift shop and warehouse from where online orders will ship.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2021
• When his husband was alive, the two of them had renovated the kitchen.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• She's complained that a hotel isn't part of the plan to renovate and expand the center.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
• Estimates to renovate the church at the time were set at $3.5 million.
  — Linda Girardi, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
• The shopping center has been renovated in the past year.
  — Maria Morales, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2023
• Talk about the plans to renovate the other two stores — what do guests have to look forward to with those reopenings?
  — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• The second and third floors will not be open, as they are still being renovated.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
• Driving the news: The zoo plans to renovate its two bear habitats and add a third space for its bear breeding program.
  — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
• The owner of the building, Cohen says, is planning to renovate it soon.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
• Their owners may not be able to afford to renovate them.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• The Grinkers planned to renovate it but found that doing so would be too expensive, Grinker said.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2023
• The family bought the house for $3.85 million last year and plans to renovate the inside spaces.
  — Cecilie Rohwedder, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
• These grand plans do more than renovate one street or building.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Many sold to Baltimore City Schools teachers who wanted to live in the city but didn’t want to renovate a home.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2023
• At the time, my vision was to renovate the garage space and turn it into a small restaurant dining room.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• The brand is set to open the flagship in the fourth quarter in a building that has recently been renovated.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 14 Feb. 2025
• Are more squabbles likely to get in the way of progress on what to do about renovating or building a courthouse?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• The Sun spent $6 million to renovate the waterfront site.
  — Yacob Reyes, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
• The decision about whether to renovate the current stadium or build a new one is up to Moreno.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• Before a bank can renovate and optimize, there is work to be done.
  — Alexander Duggan, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• Workers have already started renovating the downtown space in preparation for the opening, said Ashley Freeman, who runs the shop with her husband Ben.
  — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025
• The tower illustrates what can happen when aging buildings don’t get renovated or replaced fast enough: Structures get deemed unsafe and unusable before the city has had time to design and build replacements.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025