How to Use convalesce in a Sentence

convalesce

verb

• He is convalescing from his leg injuries.
• But the king spends much of his time convalescing abroad.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Then to nurse, to convalesce, to talk, to listen, to seek meaning.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
• Still convalescing from knee surgery, Elliott watched the draft lottery from his bed at home.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2018
• If your symptoms are mild, convalescing at home is fine.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• The warm, dry air of the valley seemed to Briggs to provide the perfect climate in which sufferers of lung diseases could convalesce.
  — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• From time to time, Bonnie said, veterans who convalesced at the annex, or nurses who worked there, stop by.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• He was forced to spend months convalescing alone in a remote shepherd’s cabin.
  — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• He was forced to spend months convalescing alone in a remote shepherd’s cabin.
  — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• But luckier — and, often, healthier — are the sick who can convalesce with kin at their side.
  — Sushrut Jangi, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
• Three weeks Renae spent in the hospital, and three more convalescing at her parents’ home.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity.com, 1 June 2017
• After leaving the hospital, Otter convalesced at home and worked from there for two weeks.
  — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 18 Aug. 2017
• Pellegrin had to spend two more days in the hospital, and as of Monday morning, was convalescing at home.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 26 June 2017
• The promotion felt temporary, a way to give the club more coverage in the outfield while Carroll convalesced.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2023
• At Longshaw Lodge in Derbyshire, England, the nurses who tended convalescing soldiers trooped out to the damp grounds to collect moss for their wounds.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
• The rich with mild cases can convalesce at expensive hotels.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2021
• My husband was barely holding it all together, running the new business, trying to keep up with the bills, and catering to a convalescing wife.
  — Aileen Weintraub, Glamour, 11 May 2018
• Whatever the case, a fairly abrupt plot turn sends Roderick off on his tour while Charlotte remains behind to convalesce in Mary’s care.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2020
• Most days, the back room of the Animal Endocrine Clinic in Manhattan is home to half a dozen cats convalescing in feline luxury.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 16 May 2017
• Their mother, the seventy-six-year-old Susan Hailey, had lived at the home since November, convalescing from knee surgery.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020
• The volunteer pilots of Turtles Fly Too will bring convalescing turtles to care facilities across the country, where they may be nursed back to health.
  — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 2 July 2023
• There’s Lana, a real-estate baron who’d rather be in Los Angeles but is convalescing from cancer treatment at her daughter Beth’s home.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• The combination of my early morning wake-ups and my proclivity to squeeze every last droplet of the Provencal light meant our daytimes were so full that an evening spent convalescing at home was the dream.
  — Marissa Hermer, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
• The patient, after two weeks of convalescing at the hospital returned home, lighter, healthier and more mobile.
  — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 4 May 2018
• On doctor's orders, the deep-pocketed Ambrose has decided to leave damp England behind and decamp for Italy to convalesce.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 8 June 2017
• Carlson was convalescing from wounds received during the Saipan campaign.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2019
• Afterward, while convalescing at a London hospital, Mr. Grasso briefly met up with his brother Frederick, who was passing through on his way to the front lines.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• The whodunit sees an older, high-powered businesswoman, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter and granddaughter.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• Youth soccer team members rescued more than two weeks after sudden flooding trapped them in a cave complex in Thailand are now convalescing at a hospital in the northern city of Chiang Rai.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 10 July 2018
• Awkward Questions While Juncker, who’s been convalescing following surgery to treat an aneurysm, isn’t on trial, the case will revisit awkward questions.
  — Stephanie Bodoni, Bloomberg.com, 24 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024