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How to use recover in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Recover means to get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal). Example: “After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.”

Examples of recover by meaning

verbTo get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).

  • After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.
  • For days telescopes surveyed the skies to recover the small asteroid.
  • Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

verbTo salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).

  • They recovered three of the explorers very much alive, then another, wracked with severe hypothermia, who was taken to hospital.

verbTo replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).

  • At the top of the hill I asked to stop for a few minutes to recover my strength.
  • Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN

verbTo obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.

  • The plaintiff recovered in his suit, being awarded declaratory relief and a clearing of his name.

verbTo gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.

  • to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a legal action or that is owing
  • to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery
  • recover one's investment

verbTo make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.

  • to recover lost time

verbTo regain one's composure, balance etc.

  • Spinning round, he caught a stone with his ankle, but recovered quickly before turning to face me.
  • Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

verbTo get better, to regain health or prosperity.

  • I was hurt, but I knew I’d recover, given time.
  • Without calling in Business Recovery experts, the company saw trade and investor confidence recover sharply in the wake of the crisis.
  • I lost out in the deal, but I quickly recovered financially

More sentences with recover

  • He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.From the entry gas
  • Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.From the entry melt
  • My mother's news was a shock I still haven't recovered from.From the entry shock
  • Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.From the entry tile
  • The police recovered the stolen car and returned it to its owner.From the entry owner
  • I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.From the entry utility
  • The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.From the entry leach
  • Are people who report recovered memories more prone to developing false memories?From the entry prone to
  • I can usually recover from a garden variety cold with rest and fluids.From the entry garden variety
  • The pilot quickly recovered from the power surge caused by the faulty fuel system.From the entry power surge
  • The diminished Roman Empire never recovered from the sack of Rome.From the entry diminished
  • It proved impossible to recover any data from the corrupted disk.From the entry corrupted
  • He helped his daughter out financially, paying her rent and utilities, until she recovered from the accident.From the entry financially
  • If you decide to go through with the surgery, remember to leave time to recover.From the entry go through with
  • The airspeed was so low that there was insufficient elevator authority to recover from the stall.From the entry elevator authority
  • The cat recovered after treatment by a vet and has now been rehomed.From the entry rehome
  • The stock market took a long time to recover from the downtrend.From the entry downtrend
  • Thanks to autosave, I was able to recover most of my unsaved thesis after a power cut.From the entry autosave
  • Since the image was lossily compressed, we were unable to recover the original.From the entry lossily
  • Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.From the entry crown
  • Messages removed by soft deletion can be recovered if necessary.From the entry soft
  • I am hopeful that I will recover from the disease.From the entry hopeful
  • My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.From the entry wounded
  • Apparently his stolen car had been taken to a chop shop, as the police only recovered the frame.From the entry chop shop

Meaning of recover

  1. verb To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
  2. verb To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).
  3. verb To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).

Full definition of recover

Questions about recover in a sentence

How do you use recover in a sentence?
Recover is used as a verb and noun. For example: “After days of inquiries, he finally recovered his lost wallet.”
What is a short sentence with recover?
“recover one's investment”
What does recover mean?
Recover means to get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recover (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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