RECOVER in a Sentence

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247 example sentences for RECOVER, such as:

1. Six bodies were recovered from the wreck.
2. He's in hospital recovering from an operation.
3. The doctor reported the patient fully recovered.
4. He was recovering from a heart transplant operation.
5. She had much to recover from, before she could move.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECOVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
recover
 v.  get or find back; regain a former condition
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When we had our pageant, the grass didn't recover till autumn.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  I have had a shock," he said, "and I shall never recover.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
3  A few minutes pause having been allowed, that the combatants and their horses might recover breath, Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  And having said so, with a degree of tenderness and consciousness which Fanny had never seen in her before, and now thought only too becoming, she turned away for a moment to recover herself.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  He turned away to recover himself, and when he spoke again, though his voice still faltered, his manner shewed the wish of self-command, and the resolution of avoiding any farther allusion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
6  The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover the effect of Toby Crackit's intelligence.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  The young lady, making an effort to recover her cheerfulness, strove to play some livelier tune; but her fingers dropped powerless over the keys.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  With a caution, backed by many oaths, to make no more efforts to go out that night, Sikes left her to recover at leisure and rejoined Fagin.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  These words appeared to be addressed to the young lady, and were perhaps uttered with the view of affording Nancy time to recover herself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
10  I lost the boy, and no efforts of mine could recover him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
11  She was sinking under a painful and incurable disease, and wished to recover him before she died.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
12  She was ashamed of herself, quite ashamed of being so nervous, so overcome by such a trifle; but so it was, and it required a long application of solitude and reflection to recover her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  She had much to recover from, before she could move.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  She paused a moment to recover from the emotion of hearing herself so spoken of.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
15  A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  The hospital had virtually given her up for dead, but she eventually recovered.
17  Fortunately he is now fully recovered and will take all the beating as he is better than form figures indicate.
18  The doctor reported the patient fully recovered.
19  Six bodies were recovered from the wreck.
20  He looked surprised but soon recovered his self-possession.
21  He never recovered from the death of his beloved daughter.
22  But it remained to be seen Thursday whether he had sufficiently recovered in recent weeks from his health issues to have sufficient stamina to hold off Blake in these Games.
23  Authorities believe they have now recovered the bodies of all the workers who perished in the Soma mine when the fire erupted Tuesday.
24  As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them.
25  Although she's recovering from her illness, her rate of progress is quite slow.
26  A child is recovering in hospital after a serious attack by a stray dog.
27  You'll have to pad out the chair with some more cloth before recovering it.
28  He's in hospital recovering from an operation.
29  Mrs Burton was last night recovering from her injuries in hospital.
30  He was recovering from a heart transplant operation.