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to improve something that had deteriorated — especially a building- Anis, one of Kabul's newspapers, had run a story the month before on the renovation of the orphanage.Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
- He and his wife had split up around the time Eric and I did, but he had consoled himself by buying and renovating a wreck of a town house in Brooklyn.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- One of the wounded vets I met at the ranch retreats has an idea to help homeless vets by helping build or renovate housing.Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
- Salander guessed that the renovation work had been stopped abruptly.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- The storefront mission had been renovated and expanded with the money from the inheritance.Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
- But I would imagine Valentine, Blackwell, and the others had the place renovated to be a bit more to their taste.Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
- True, it was more renovation than construction, but the blacks were free, or so it was said, to occupy it.Toni Morrison -- Sula
- The area was in the process of renovation; however, like similar projects in urban blights the world over, the progress had two speeds: slow and stop.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- The house hadn't been renovated since the 1940s, and it still had cheap wood-veneer paneling and old smelly, worn-out lime-green carpeting.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- This was believed to be a crypt but was revealed as nothing of the sort during the 1950 renovation.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Until the renovation, it had felt more like her parents' house, a feeling that didn't sit well with her as she'd gotten older.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
- [2] Pistoia first strips itself of the Black, then Florence renovates her people and her customs.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- And all other reform and renovation, I suppose, will prove to be no better than moonshine!Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- Pick the courses shrewdly and work quickly and the most tawdry academic record could be renovated in a single summer.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- And she loves any excuse to renovate.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- I'll be back in a couple of days, hopefully with a good progress report of the renovation.Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
- It was also desperately in need of renovation.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
- Adam sat down, and they remained opposite to each other in uneasy silence, while Arthur slowly drank brandy-and-water, with visibly renovating effect.George Eliot -- Adam Bede
- I'm renovating new headquarters right now down by the river.Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
- The Pentagon had started a long renovation of the then nearly sixty-year-old building back in the late 1990s.David Baldacci -- Zero Day
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
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