RECURRING in a Sentence

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53 example sentences for RECURRING, such as:

1. There is a danger that the disease may recur.
2. This story will recur lots of times in next month.
3. They recurred to the reform of the economic structure.
4. If the swelling should recur, please take this medicine immediately.
5. And all were circled, as happens after seventy, by one recurring question.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECURRING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
recurring
 a.  repeated; Returning again; repetitious
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  Those words of Mrs. Strong's were constantly recurring to me, at this time; were almost always present to my mind.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
2  He vividly recalled all the constantly recurring instances of inevitable necessity for lying and deceit, which were so against his natural bent.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
3  And all were circled, as happens after seventy, by one recurring question.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  'Well, well,' said the Dodger, recurring to the point from which they had strayed: with that mindfulness of his profession which influenced all his proceedings.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
6  I feel more strongly with every recurring year that our country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should guard so jealously as that of its hospitality.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
7  I know, anyway, that I will not be put off with a compromise, with a recurring zero, simply because it is consistent with the laws of nature and actually exists.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: X
8  The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and it chilled him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
9  May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of Waterloo.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
10  Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity of realities.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
11  But since like conditions seldom recur, it can only rarely happen that like remedies are useful.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXII.
12  But when both of these incitements to virtuous behavior began to recur less frequently, corruption spread, and after the time of Atilius Regulus, no like example was again witnessed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I.
13  The first case has been discussed, but we will speak of it again should it recur.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH OF A...
14  Yet it would be enquiring too curiously to ask, whether the recollection of Rebecca's beauty and magnanimity did not recur to his mind more frequently than the fair descendant of Alfred might altogether have approved.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
15  It may possibly recur to your memory that when I examined the paper upon which the printed words were fastened I made a close inspection for the water-mark.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
Example Sentence:
1  It has since expanded to include a multitude of girls, including several recurring regulars.
2  Self-deprecation is a recurring feature as Stevenson talks.
3  There is a danger that the disease may recur.
4  If the swelling should recur, please take this medicine immediately.
5  This story will recur lots of times in next month.
6  The gale still rising, seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at every lull; at last I made out it must be some dog howling at a distance.
7  They recurred to the reform of the economic structure.