How to use overhaul in a sentence

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• The freeware version will be supplanted by an overhauled for-pay release.From the entry for-pay
• The general concern about industrial stagnation inspired an overhaul of the patent system.From the entry stagnation
• My car engine has had two overhauls.From the entry overhauls
• When you overhaul an engine, you need to remove the carbon from around the valve seats. The carbon buildup can be extensive.From the entry carbon
• During the overhaul, the cylinder heads were found to be reusable, as long as they got a good cleaning to decarbonize the valve seat areas.From the entry decarbonize
• But in recent months the company decided to radically overhaul the RSP.2026 February 24, Billy Perrigo, “Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge”, in Time. From the entry rsp
• The Goods and Services Tax (GST) overhaul will make cars cheaper this festive season across segments.2025 September 5, Jagriti Chandra, “Cars get cheaper, festive sales likely to hit top gear. Sub-4 metre cars with engines below 1,200 cc…. From the entry GST
• Because they had been in storage, they had not undertaken their time-based overhaul, which had been due.2025 August 6, Richard Wilcock, “Old units... new lease of life”, in RAIL, number 1041, page 31. From the entry recommission
• They had also not undertaken their mileage-based overhaul, which was also due for all the sets.2025 August 6, Richard Wilcock, “Old units... new lease of life”, in RAIL, number 1041, page 31. From the entry recommission
• As well as overhauling the administration in the collectories, the papacy attempted to reorganise them throughout Christendom.2025, John A. F. Thomson, Popes and Princes 1417–1517. From the entry collectory
• To that end, he said, he planned an overhaul of the company’s ownership this autumn.2020 July 30, Keith Bradsher, “China Tries Its Favorite Economic Cure: More Construction”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Xuzhou
• During those overhauls the locomotives were also rewired, updated, and had any corrosion dealt with.2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 50. From the entry rewire
• Well, now, I wouldn't make this change seem like a major overhaul.1996, Emma Brookes, chapter 9, in Dead Even, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry chopped liver
• The overhauling of special apparatus and the making of fresh "food-trees" is in order.1911 December 1, Julia E. Rogers, “A Better and More Efficient Method than Scattering Crumbs on the Ground - Some Successful German…. From the entry food tree
• The C6 overhaul is only a temporary answer.2026 February 18, Paul Clifton, “West of England Line problems laid bare”, in RAIL, number 1055, page 7. From the entry break down
• It could prove transformative for Guinea, which wants to use the revenue to overhaul everything from roads to education.2025 December 7, “A giant iron-ore mine could bring Guinea riches or ruin. It all depends on how the country's junta uses the windfall”…. From the entry Simandou
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a key piece of legislation overhauling the country’s mobilization rules.2024 April 16, Olga Voitovych, Radina Gigova, Svitlana Vlasova and Christian Edwards, “Zelensky signs law overhauling Ukraine’s…. From the entry mobilization
• We remember that Kevin Corbett said last month that nontransparent ’crazed’ windows would be replaced when rail cars were overhauled.2024 11, David Peter Alan, quoting Sally Jane Gellert, “Multilevel Cards to Get Their Trucks Overhauled, but What About the Windows?”, in…. From the entry nontransparent
• Far from having been overhauled, the Greek state has received only a cosmetic makeover, a managerial window dressing.2022 August 22, Alexander Clapp, “The Rot at the Heart of Greece Is Now Clear for Everyone to See”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry window dressing
• Overhead line electrification near London Euston is being overhauled in a four-week Network Rail project to reduce delays in hot weather.2020 June 17, “Network News: Overhead line equipment renewed at Camden”, in Rail, page 20. From the entry sagging
• Did something of an overhaul of my Panthersona.2020 June 9, @GreenJac, “Victor Eckart”, in Fur Affinity. From the entry pigsona
• Overhaul down & hook the cat, haul taut.2009, Olof A. Eriksen, Constitution - All Sails Up and Flying, Outskirts Press, page 134. From the entry cat
• This "extends the operational life before the first major overhaul and extends the time between repair", Filip said.2000, Jane's International Defense Review: IDR, volume 33, page 61. From the entry zero-life
• The diesel engines and traction equipment from S.R. multiple-units and traction motors from electric trains are also overhauled at Eastleigh.1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 159. From the entry traction motor
• Overhauling serves to remix the brine and to shift the meat so that all pieces will be exposed to the brine.1955, Farmers' Bulletin, number 1807, page 20. From the entry remix
• He could not long outdistance such a runner as the Bishop, whose tremendous strides would surely overhaul him in the end.1922, Christopher Morley, chapter 12, in Where the Blue Begins. From the entry outdistance
• At this time the drive was overhauled.1919 June 24, “From the Old to the New”, in Electrical World, volume 73, number 24, New York, New York, page 1254. From the entry heavy duty
• Masked or larvate malaria, like pernicious malaria, needs complete overhauling.1909, William Heiskell Deaderick, A Practical Study of Malaria, page 232. From the entry complicate
• Rubio cast the issue in personal terms, talking about how a tax overhaul would affect “the guy that does my dry cleaning.”2015 October 28, Patrick Healy, “G.O.P. Candidates Take Sharp Tone in Third Debate”, in New York Times. From the entry wonkishly
• Aboriginal groups could apply to jointly manage all Crown land under the most radical overhaul of native title settlement proposed in Victoria.2009 January 6, Jewel Topsfield, “Native title reform bid”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 26 Aug 2014. From the entry crown land
• The Oriskany had been ridden hard and put away wet at the end of the Vietnam War, without an overhaul or proper preservation.1988, John F. Lehman, Command of the Seas: A Personal Story, page 174. From the entry ridden hard and put away wet
• A major concomitant of the advent of diesel traction has been a vast increase in the amount of electrical equipment needing overhaul.1963 May, “Metamorphosis at Swindon Works”, in Modern Railways, page 337. From the entry concomitant
• I was distracted by a pictorial retelling of the cosmic cycle of birth, as endless starmatter condensed and exploded, while my body was given a thorough purge and overhaul.2005, Jason Louv, Generation Hex. From the entry starmatter

Meaning of overhaul

1. noun A major repair, renovation, or revision.
2. noun The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite.
3. verb To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.

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Questions about overhaul in a sentence

How do you use overhaul in a sentence?

Overhaul is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The engine required a complete overhaul to run properly.”

What is a short sentence with overhaul?

“At this time the drive was overhauled.”

What does overhaul mean?

Overhaul means a major repair, renovation, or revision.