RECOVERY in a Sentence

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For RECOVERY, below is one of 75 sentences:
The Rabbi now dismounted in great alarm, and hastily applied the remedies which his art suggested for the recovery of his companion.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECOVERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
recovery
 n.  the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost)
 n.  return to an original state
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  By the evening, however, Napoleon appeared to be somewhat better, and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them that he was well on the way to recovery.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  If he made a good recovery, he might expect to live another three years, and he looked forward to the peaceful days that he would spend in the corner of the big pasture.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
3  "You had better have tarried there to fight for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre," said the Templar.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  He awoke from a broken slumber, under the confused impressions which are naturally attendant on the recovery from a state of insensibility.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  The Rabbi now dismounted in great alarm, and hastily applied the remedies which his art suggested for the recovery of his companion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  One should be a brute not to feel for the distress they are in; and from what I hear, poor Mr. Bertram has a bad chance of ultimate recovery.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  They were happy days, those of Oliver's recovery.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  He learnt that she had fallen into a deep sleep, from which she would waken, either to recovery and life, or to bid them farewell, and die.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  There could not be a doubt, to her mind there was none, of what would follow her recovery.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
10  She in the overflowing spirits of her recovery, repeats it all to her nurse; and the nurse knowing my acquaintance with you, very naturally brings it all to me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
11  It determined him to leave Lyme, and await her complete recovery elsewhere.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
12  But with this recovery of a prompt retreat my courage recovered.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
13  One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  Mr. Harris, who attended her every day, still talked boldly of a speedy recovery, and Miss Dashwood was equally sanguine; but the expectation of the others was by no means so cheerful.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
15  This guileless confectioner was not by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, which was painted over.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  We are confident in our expectation of a full recovery.
17  These figures kill off any lingering hopes of an early economic recovery.
18  Our main objective was the recovery of the child safe and well.
19  His amazing recovery confounded the medical specialists.
20  My father has made a full recovery from the operation.
21  The prognosis after the operation was for a full recovery.
22  The owner has offered a reward for the recovery of the stolen goods.
23  The patient made a rapid recovery.
24  The patient has been in a coma for a week and doesn't seem to have any hope of recovery.
25  There is now no possibility that she will make a full recovery.
26  The greatest hindrance to recovery of this resource is the marginally favorable economic environment.
27  The illness demoralized him and recovery took several weeks.
28  Her recovery was a special providence of God.
29  Economic indicators suggest that a recovery is on the way.
30  Rest and proper nourishment should facilitate the patient's recovery.