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convalesce

[kon-vuh-les] / ˌkɒn vəˈlɛs /


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To convalesce, they stay in this compound, and exercise by walking around its well-ordered clusters of three-story buildings and a synthetic turf avenue with a playground and soccer field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

Palace hopes that she would be left alone to convalesce were dashed.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

A volunteer with the group drove the bird to the Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware, where the owl continues to convalesce and regain the strength to fly regularly.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

My argument is that if you learn this new language of the body and learn how to to be kind to yourself and to convalesce properly, you will convalesce much better.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

Afterward, most patients were sent off to outlying hospitals to convalesce.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

We’re doing this interview over Skype – me in London lockdown, he at his 78-year-old mother’s house in the hills above Los Angeles: he’s looking after her while she convalesces from surgery.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2020

As Farrell’s character convalesces, it becomes increasingly unclear whether he is manipulating his female caregivers or whether they are playing out their own power games through him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2017

The hospital in which Moose convalesces from his heart attack is “a department store for sadness”; his cough is “small, way short of a proper hack, a kind of diet cough.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2016

Lundqvist is expected to miss at least two more weeks as he convalesces after a vascular injury to his neck.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2015

And since then continually, thanks to God, her Majesty convalesces better and better....

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various

And when he suffered a punctured lung against Manchester United on a tour of the States, he convalesced at the Los Angeles home of McElhenney.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

Cinderella underwent a successful operation at VCA Lakewood Hospital and convalesced at a volunteer’s home for a month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

The rooftops drew tenants outside with covered porches and reclining seats, on which tuberculosis patients convalesced.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

He painted it at the Saint-Paul asylum in southern France, where he convalesced.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2020

For five years now she had convalesced in confinement, but she still had not healed.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Robert Dickman, for one, was convalescing at a hospital in Queens.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

During their tour, they met with the convalescing Pope at the Vatican and enjoyed a state banquet in their honour.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025

Pink needed two surgeries and almost two months of recovery at the same aviary where Blue is convalescing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

The court was shown video statements the couple provided police as they were convalescing as well as their testimony in court.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

They take Mom’s Prius, since Dad’s car is still convalescing in the garage.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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