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• The kids have to go to the playground during recess, no matter the weather.From the entry playground
• The boys had planned to fight during recess, but backed down after the principal found out.From the entry back down
• Six-year-old Casey eloped during recess and police found him watching traffic lights at the intersection.From the entry elope
• Every time he jump ropes at recess, he comes in with scraped knees.From the entry jump ropes
• These kids need to get outside for recess. They're bouncing off the walls in here.From the entry bounce off the walls
• He couldn't wait to get to the playstructure to play grounders at recess.From the entry playstructure
• The children exchanged teasing remarks during recess.From the entry teasing
• Ambient accompaniment, water maintained pedalpoint armature, fluviality, surge and subsidence, light oratorical wax and recess.2017, Nathaniel Mackey, Late Arcade, New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22. From the entry fluviality
• Which meant that during recess Luke played games with his friends instead of with me.2015, Evan Kuhlman, Great Ball of Light. From the entry girlproof
• In grade five I started a school newspaper which I would painstakingly Gestetner during recess.2015, Magda Szubanski, Reckoning, page 76. From the entry Gestetner
• The undercutter produces a rabbetlike recess on the back of the panel.2005, Bill Hylton's Frame & Panel Magic, page 63. From the entry undercutter
• Children in the countryside still carry some tostado in their pockets to eat during recess at school.2003, Maria Baez Kijac, The South American Table, →ISBN. From the entry tostado
• Hey, lookit the sissy who didn't sign up for recess baseball!1990 April 19, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes. From the entry lookit
• Sun blinds (recessed in a pelmet) were provided for all windows, except in the corridors.1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398. From the entry pelmet
• During the trial they conferred together amiably in whispers, continued their comradely discussions during recesses.1957 June 3, “A Question of Justice”, in Time. From the entry comradely
• The Norfolk Grammar School had two sessions "with a short intervenient recess."1931, L. Minerva Turnbull, "Private Schools in Norfolk, 1800-1860," William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd ser., vol. 11, no. 4, p. 279. From the entry intervenient
• Mainsheet control is through a mainsheet traveller with roller bearing car and crosshaul tackle recessed into the bridge deck.2024 June 2, Wikipedia contributors, “C&C 37/40”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry crosshaul
• All traditional school programs incorporate some sort of recess or outdoor time, and a homeschool schedule should be no different.2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN. From the entry homeschool
• I played jackpot in the mud at recess, and my Christmas wish lists consisted of baseball mitts and remote controlled cars.2019 February 6, Amanda Zhang, “Amanda Zhang: There's no shame in liking "Twilight"”, in The Michigan Daily, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University…. From the entry jackpot
• Later on, popular kids would compel me to do their homework with overtures of friendship, only to ignore me at recess.2016 October 21, Crystal Chen, “I ‘Went Back to China’ — and Felt More American than Ever”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original…. From the entry ching-chong
• This area is pretty linear, so travel onwards killing Draugr until you see a chest in a wall recess.2015, GamerGuides.com, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Strategy Guide. From the entry untrap
• Recessed wheels are less subject to damage than nonrecessed wheels.2006, Judith Gilford, The Packing Book: Secrets of the Carry-on Traveler, page 34. From the entry nonrecessed
• And at recess we all went out to the three-holer toilet, and boy, we had us a ball.1997, Luther Bryan Clegg, The Empty Schoolhouse: Memories of One-Room Texas Schools, page 78. From the entry holer
• At recess we would play chasey or kick a ball.1995, Geoffrey Dutton, Out in the Open, Univ. of Queensland Press, page 39. From the entry chasey
• Face B has prominent arched browlines, wide eyes, well-proportioned nose with recessed nostrils, indistinct smiling mouth, knob-like chin, and fat cheeks.1995, E. M. Stern, Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass: The First Through Sixth Centuries (page 243). From the entry browline
• In the back room and understeps, recessed lights are used.1984, Edie Lee Cohen, Sherman R. Emery, Dining by design, page 118. From the entry understep
• The presswheel fits quite snugly into the die recess, serving to prevent escape of the material around the presswheel.1979, Institute for Briquetting, Agglomeration. Biennial Conference, Proceedings. From the entry presswheel
• They study applications for review during the summer recess.1969, George G. Bruntz, John Bremer, “The Federal Court System”, in American Government, [Boston, Mass.]: Ginn and Company, →OCLC, unit V…. From the entry busman's holiday
• They dwell in a recess of the bay.1900, George Matheson, Sidelights from Patmos, pages 62–63. From the entry inlandness
• During recess an inviolable border separated the townies at the northern end of our play area from the barnies at the southern.2016, Peter Straub, Interior Darkness: Selected Stories. From the entry barnie
• The columbarium (vaults lined with recesses for cinerary urns) in the form of a grotto (a cave-like structure) is the centerpiece of the Elks plot.2004, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13. From the entry columbarium

Meaning of recess

1. noun A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
2. noun A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
3. noun The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.

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How do you use recess in a sentence?

Recess is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space.”

What is a short sentence with recess?

“the recess of the tides”

What does recess mean?

Recess means a depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.