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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 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

So the king and the prime minister and the lord chancellor would all be looking for somewhere to convalesce it.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

"Should he recover, it will take a month, or, perhaps, two, before he convalesces."

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever

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

Sick and weighing only 70 pounds, he convalesced at a hospital, where he began painting scenes from Auschwitz, as well as landscapes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

Two weeks later, Dole was back in the Senate as mourners passed by the casket of Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, whom Dole had befriended decades earlier as the men convalesced from their war injuries.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021

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

Maradona was convalescing when he died of a heart attack at his home in 2020, aged 60.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

More than a dozen koalas were convalescing in open-air enclosures, wrapping their woolly arms around the trunks of eucalyptus trees.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

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

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