RECOVER in a Sentence

Learn RECOVER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
247 example sentences for RECOVER, such as:
1. It is impossible for the client to recover.
2. The economy is at last beginning to recover.
3. It took a moment for Mark to recover his poise.
4. She had much to recover from, before she could move.
5. He is very ill and unlikely to recover in this month.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RECOVER
recover
 v.  cover anew
 v.  regain or make up for
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)
1  The local authority must try to recover arrears of rent.
2  No one can understand the hurt and pain of life, not a time to be able to recover, I can only share memory protection.
3  It is impossible for the client to recover.
4  There should be some tangible evidence that the economy is starting to recover.
5  The economy is at last beginning to recover.
6  The doctors gave him more powerful drugs in the vain hope that he might recover.
7  It took a moment for Mark to recover his poise.
8  Life is a wounded recover the continuous improvement of process.
9  I truly believe this set back, my bet is they will recover and move on, hopefully sooner than soon.
10  He is very ill and unlikely to recover in this month.
11  She was slow to recover from her illness; even a short walk to the window would enervate her.
12  He also has the ability to recover quickly in scramble situations and control rebounds.
13  They will need months of therapy and additional reconstructive surgery in the coming years to help them recover.
14  She had hardly recovered from the birth of her last baby.
15  She fully intends to continue her sporting career once she has recovered from her injuries.