How to Use refit in a Sentence

refit

1 of 2 verb
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  • What happens to the new-age sluggers who have refit their swings to get the ball airborne?
    — Dan Bickley, azcentral, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Feadship builds four to six yachts a year but refits up to 12, Mr. Nefzi said.
    — Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • This would deny the Russians the ability to rest and refit through the winter months.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
  • There is a cutoff date of July 1 for airlines to refit their planes.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 11 May 2023
  • Steve built the porch that now wraps around the home and refitted the exterior with wooden logs and mauve paint.
    — Katherine Oung, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Aug. 2023
  • One of them is the ability to refit and retool inside Gaza.
    — ABC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Ukraine wants to refit its army along NATO standards by 2020.
    — Seth J. Frantzman, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The price could be cheaper if the city can refit an existing building.
    — Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • And like the Espresso Cadore, those trains will also be constructed of old cars refitted for the new routes.
    — Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The tanks are currently being refitted to meet Ukraine's needs.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2023
  • When the project was first launched in 2016, the initial plan was to refit an older vessel into a residential ship.
    — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Pilots are tired, and airplanes have to be maintained and refitted, the official said.
    — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Ukrainian troops will train on tanks similar to those being refitted for them in the United States.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
  • The old ship eventually became refitted a third time for the Viet Nam War.
    — courant.com, 6 June 2018
  • Some suffered heat exhaustion and were helped into the garage of a nearby house refitted as a triage center.
    — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The message Russia would get is that this is time to refit and to rebuild economically.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The children clamor for — and quickly fall off — the newly refitted skateboards.
    — Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Ukraine would worry, rightly, that such an outcome would give Russia time to regroup, refit its battered army and try again.
    — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Blackbeard intended to refit his remaining sloop and head to the Bahamas.
    — John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
  • The space was ever so slightly too small, forcing the bumpers to be removed in order to get it into the garage without damage and then refitted when the car was removed.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 30 Sep. 2018
  • During the 1950s many of the Essex-class carriers were refitted and several new classes were built, each larger than the last.
    — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2018
  • It was worn by Elizabeth during her coronation and has been refitted for her son.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • The image also hints at the capability to refit the aircraft with weapon and propulsion upgrades.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2021
  • An Iraqi health ministry spokesman said the Ibn al-Khatib hospital, where the fire broke out, and had been renovated last year to refit it for treating Covid patients.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2021
  • One of Russia’s most visible symbols of seapower won’t emerge from refit for at least another two years.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2022
  • The dayslong pause in fighting allowed the SDF, which includes local Arabs, to reposition and refit their fighters.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
  • The project will refit Market Street to be more accessible for pedestrians and bikers, Herget said.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The museums postponed the show four years, to a chorus of outrage; then pushed it up again to this year as its organizers hustled to refit its display to a fractious moment.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • That money will be spent to refit and build factories, train workers, write software, upgrade dealerships and more.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Clever the young rapper who takes an ancient English tale and (unconsciously?) refits it for his purposes.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
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refit

2 of 2 noun
  • With 300 berths in its dry dock, the yard carries out roughly a tenth of the refit and repair of all the big yachts in the world.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2020
  • The yard has been working overtime on both new builds and refits.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The exhaustive, two-year refit took the steel and aluminum superyacht down to the studs.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The ship, which has been in refit since 2017, has few (if any) sailors actually assigned to it.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Now for sale with Burgess, the 269-foot yacht presents a ripe opportunity for refit.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Nine of Singapore Airlines' A380s have undergone a refit and three are in the makeover process.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The year-long refit was carried out in the new shed at Feadship’s Amsterdam yard.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Thanks to an extensive 2020 refit, the story of the yacht continues.
    — Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2023
  • And those were big kind of refits in terms of your original culture versus your new culture is.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Bereft of visitors, the Louvre keeps busy with major refit and restorations.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The refit would install all the necessary equipment to operate a small force of F-35Bs from Izumo.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2018
  • The refit could transform the B-1 from an aging bomber on the verge of retirement into a door kicker that would fire the opening shots in a future conflict.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2020
  • At least one old mid-endurance cutter is getting a refit so it can be sent out into the Pacific.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • As a result, the completion of the refit of the ship is now delayed indefinitely.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018
  • The 90-year-old boat wears her age well, having emerged from a 12-month refit last year with a complete mechanical overhaul.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 27 May 2022
  • Bentley’s historic Pyms Lane plant in Cheshire will also be treated to a refit to ready it for the zero-emissions future.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 May 2022
  • The refit extends to the game's tutorials, which are fully voiced and overlaid onto the action, via The Handler.
    — Simon Parkin, Ars Technica, 26 June 2017
  • The owners have just completed a total refit of the property.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • After being fully restored during the refit, the boat caught fire while Highlander was anchored off the Amalfi Coast in Italy.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The first 2018 refit fully upgraded the galley and extended the main salon.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2021
  • But the short answer may sound inscrutable — a Levallois refit or manioc phytolith — or dull — a bowl, comb or donkey bone.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Over the next two years at the Astilleros de Mallorca yard, that figure ballooned to $35 million as the refit turned into a wholesale renovation across the yacht.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Pomponi was brought back for Nero’s most recent refit, giving the interior turquoise hues with blue and red accents.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 2 July 2021
  • This was not to be case with the Gadhafi plane but still, one thing was clear: Whatever final use it was given, the aircraft was in need of an extensive and thorough refit.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Miami’s largest commercial health club—for ten years, Blue World will debut the first of its refit 350-passenger ships next spring.
    — Andrew Sessa, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2018
  • After the purchase, the boat went into the Dunya Yachts yard in Istanbul for a comprehensive refit.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The vessel went through an extensive refit that was unprecedented in terms of scope, according to the Oceanco team.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The designer refit the existing hutch with fluted glass that feels fresh and partially obscures the contents.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • La Chabanne was kitted out with a new pool and underground parking during the refit that took several years.
    — Simon Lee, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2022
  • One of Northbrook's shopping strips is on the way to getting a refit that will start with replacing three outmoded signs with two new ones, but change is difficult in coming.
    — Irv Leavitt, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2017

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