Sentence examples for convalesce from inspiring English sources

"convalesce" is an English word, and it is commonly used in written English
It means to gradually recover health and strength after an illness or injury. For example: "After an extended period of convalescence, the patient's health eventually returned to normal."

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convalesce

verb

To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness

  • The patient convalesced for six months after his stroke.

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Panama's former dictator will be released later this month after spending 17 years in an American jail for drug-trafficking.Opponents of Bolivia's leftist president, Evo Morales, staged strikes to protest against his attempt to oust four of the five constitutional court justices.Cuban officials insisted that Fidel Castro continues to convalesce from surgery.

With the help of a patron, he was later able to go to school; after finishing he worked as a teacher in a Grundtvigian folk school until he became tubercular and went to Spain and Italy to convalesce.

In May she traveled to Santa Barbara, California, to convalesce, but she died there in July.

While on an extended visit to Italy in the mid-1890s to convalesce from one of her many illnesses, she discovered a talent for sculpture, and after her return to New York in 1897 she studied with Augustus Saint-Gaudens and others.

Once, not long after she'd moved to Paris, she came back to London to have some work done on her wisdom teeth, and stayed at my place to convalesce.

During a childhood trip to the seaside to convalesce after a bout of jaundice, the headmaster's son from Berkhamsted watched a silent version of Anthony Hope's novel Sophy of Kravonia.

He will convalesce in his hometown, Stockholm, until he has recovered to a point where he is able to resume work on his second artist album next year, his representative told Billboard.

Ms. Duffy had lost nearly twenty pounds by the time she'd crept onto the airplane and come home to convalesce at her mother's; it was there that, looking pale and otherworldly, she had met Roman.

I eventually learned that Fumiko had left for Europe after recovering from a nervous breakdown, the way wealthy Scandinavians went to the Mediterranean to convalesce from respiratory ailments.

A retired teacher moves in with her daughter to convalesce, the daughter's employer gives a bad speech, his niece leaves a damning message for her lover.

Hers is the longing of love — not romantic love, but love for her nephew Gideon Gat, who has been unwell and is coming to convalesce with her in Tel Ilan.

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