How to Use convalesce in a Sentence

convalesce

verb
  • He is convalescing from his leg injuries.
  • Then to nurse, to convalesce, to talk, to listen, to seek meaning.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
  • He was forced to spend months convalescing alone in a remote shepherd’s cabin.
    — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • He was forced to spend months convalescing alone in a remote shepherd’s cabin.
    — Javier Pierini, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • Still convalescing from knee surgery, Elliott watched the draft lottery from his bed at home.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But luckier — and, often, healthier — are the sick who can convalesce with kin at their side.
    — Sushrut Jangi, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
  • After leaving the hospital, Otter convalesced at home and worked from there for two weeks.
    — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 18 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Three weeks Renae spent in the hospital, and three more convalescing at her parents’ home.
    — Eric Adler, kansascity.com, 1 June 2017
  • Pink needed two surgeries and almost two months of recovery at the same aviary where Blue is convalescing.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The already dirge-like film downshifts further, towards a more pleasant state of repose, as Robin convalesces.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • Carlson was convalescing from wounds received during the Saipan campaign.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The patient, after two weeks of convalescing at the hospital returned home, lighter, healthier and more mobile.
    — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 4 May 2018
  • Louis, taking a page from the Romantic playbook, had attempted suicide and then, grotesquely burned, convalesced in his coffin.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 1 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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 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 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
  • 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
  • Bow soon after entered Glendale Sanitarium to convalesce from the ordeal.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Catherine will be hospitalized for 10 to 14 days, according to the couple’s office in Kensington Palace, and will convalesce for two to three months after that.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Even those sympathetic to the senator, who smell more than a whiff of ageism and misogyny in calls for her resignation, suggest Feinstein cannot and should not attempt to serve out her term convalescing in San Francisco.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023

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