How to Use recurrent in a Sentence

recurrent

adjective

• The loss of innocence is a recurrent theme in his stories.
• Without it, the world runs the risk of recurrent pandemics.
  — Lara Marks, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2021
• The recurrent all-nighters have stretched both parents thin.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2021
• The staffing shortfall has been a recurrent point of contention.
  — Ted Mann, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
• And even now, the song remains within the top 10 of recurrent airplay at the format.
  — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2023
• The process, which isn’t unique to colon cancer, holds the potential for a wide range of recurrent cancers.
  — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2021
• This is the same problem that, transposed to the human realm, is the recurrent subject of Heti’s fiction.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• Safe drinking water was also a recurrent theme throughout the city strikes of the 1970s.
  — Fatima Garcia Elena, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
• A year later, the theme of gender equity is a recurrent one, at least on the women’s side.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2022
• Immigration has served as a recurrent subject in his work, on the screen and off.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• The standing nude model and the painting of a white cat, on the wall, introduce us to some of Hirshfield’s recurrent themes.
  — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2022
• At the beginning of the twenty-first century, one of the recurrent visual symbols of the city, the Twin Towers, fell.
  — Nicholas D. Lowry, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Wrangling over finances has been a recurrent feature at the court.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• The team analyzed whether the emissions were one-offs or repeated and found that 68 per cent were recurrent.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
• There are recurrent calls for tech support, caffeine and blankets, because the rooms can get cold, like the pizza.
  — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
• There are recurrent calls for tech support, caffeine, and blankets, because the rooms can get cold, like the pizza.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• Fin de siècle artists saw the original objects and triggered the new école, a recurrent theme down the centuries.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• Brazil's southeast has been hit by heavy rains this year, causing recurrent floods and landslides.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2020
• Undoneness is a recurrent theme of the spring 2023 season.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
• Centered, as usual, on Eddie’s recurrent melodic licks, the song takes flight when the rhythm section joins in.
  — chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• As with many of the team’s liquid creations, the bar itself is a recurrent source of inspiration.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2024
• The film followed the lives of impoverished people in southern Italy— a recurrent theme in her work.
  — NBC News, 10 Dec. 2021
• If this is a recurrent problem, pump a bit of milk before each nursing session.
  — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 22 July 2024
• One recurrent pose finds everyone lying supine with a leg raised straight up.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• While a recurrent network analyzes a sentence word by word, the transformer processes all the words at the same time.
  — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• The music, much of it composed of looping, recurrent elements, went on for hours.
  — Miguel Otárola, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• While a lot of nova events happen and then burn out, RS Ophiuchi is a recurrent nova system.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022
• This year Mr Djukanovic has been rattled by recurrent protests, which draw tens of thousands of people waving Serbian flags and led by priests.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
• When pericarditis recurs more than four weeks after the first flare has stopped, it is classified as recurrent pericarditis, or RP.
  — Carol Schram, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• Complaints included network dropouts, recurrent outages and consistently bad phone signals.
  — Elizabeth Carr-Ellis, The Week Uk, theweek, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024