convalesce

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

She will convalesce at home for two to three months, according to her office at the palace, and will not return to official duties until after Easter, which falls on March 31 this year.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 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

Ginny Koong’s room was empty because she was downstairs with Dickie in his room, the two of them now recovered enough to convalesce together.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

By and by, when he wakes up and convalesces, he’ll ask shamefacedly whether he didn’t act and talk like an awful fool during his delirium.

From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford

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

During Novak’s mental-health ordeal, she convalesced at home with her parents, making slow progress on her book, “How to Weep in Public,” which was published by Crown in 2016.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Until the surge, the floor where they convalesced was reserved for all kinds of medical and surgical patients.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 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

The Pope was breathing on his own, without oxygen tubes, despite being told by his doctors to spend two months convalescing after 38 days in hospital with double pneumonia.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 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

I rearranged the house where I was going to put each one while they were convalescing.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez