Sentence examples for reclaim from inspiring English sources
reclaim
To return land to a suitable condition for use.
The word "reclaim" is correct and can be used in written English. You can use it to refer to taking back possession of something or reasserting one's rights or claim to something. For example: "The city reclaimed the public space to turn it into a park.".
'The confidence which came from a second victory would encourage the Government to reclaim the principles it had abandoned.
Currently this money is repaid by deducting money from benefits payments, but there is no system to reclaim money from ex-claimants who have found work and are therefore no longer claiming benefits.
He is an advocate of open data science and an adviser to a London-based startup, CitizenMe, that aims to allow users to reclaim their digital soul.
The UK move came as the US announced its most concerted bombing campaign yet over northern Iraq to drive Isis forces back, helping Kurdish forces to reclaim Mosul dam.
But now, through a new community initiative that aims to reclaim public spaces in Mumbai swallowed by motorists, hawkers and illegal encroachments, no cars are allowed on one 6.5-kilometre stretch just to the north of the old centre of the city between 7 and 11 am on Sundays.
If the arts are to free themselves to do what they are best at, they must reclaim the way in which we talk of what we do.
In short, I want my party, and I hope a government I would like to lead, to reclaim a mantle that we should never have lost – the mantle of One Nation, one United Kingdom," he said.
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