How to Use recovery room in a Sentence

recovery room

noun
  • After about a half-hour in the recovery room, Kris is asked to leave.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • In the recovery room, a quick X-ray showed that the biopsy had gone as planned.
    — Jeffrey E. Poehlmann, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
  • Bosco built a workout and recovery room with a cold tub — a feature unique to elite athletes.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2020
  • In a private recovery room, the man in the baseball cap kissed her forehead and touched her left hand.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2019
  • Their conversation takes place in the recovery room ice baths — no, thank you!
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • There was a fold-out couch in the recovery room, and when Pesch closed it, there was a sudden, loud sound.
    — Edward Chen, STAT, 5 Apr. 2023
  • There were no recovery rooms or protein shakes—only rest, warmth, and food when available.
    — Outside, 10 Dec. 2025
  • During their hospital stay, the twins were put in recovery rooms near each other.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The pain of waking up in the recovery room which is worsened by that immediate sense of loss.
    — Audre Lorde, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Jean was brought to the recovery room, where she was surrounded by other mothers and their healthy babies.
    — Nathaniel Rich Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Journals the clinic keeps in the recovery room were filled with entries about challenges the patients had faced.
    — Kate Kelly, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • In the recovery room following the three-hour surgery, Nora had a series of seizures right in front of us.
    — Lauren Levy, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Suvari recalls waking up and seeing the implants on a side table as she was wheeled to the recovery room.
    — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
  • Live vlogging minutes after the anesthesia has worn off in the recovery room.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2025
  • On a table in the recovery room sat a notebook where patients could write messages to one another.
    — Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • In the recovery room, when the anesthesia wore off after the surgery, Garcia’s eyes filled with tears.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • After spending an hour or two in the recovery room while the anesthesia wears off, patients return home the same day.
    — Kaitlin Clark, Allure, 30 July 2019
  • In the recovery room, the nurses were transferring a young patient from a gurney into her bed, her back arched in agony.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Collier told the publication weight rooms and recovery rooms will be available.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, Hartford Courant, 30 May 2024
  • Lying in a dark recovery room afterward, Earl woke up crying.
    — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
  • In the recovery room, I was attended to by the most caring and concerned nurses.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
  • Patiño woke up in a recovery room, groggy and babbling about his favorite Colombian soccer team.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Take this advice from a wellness pro for pulling together the ultimate recovery room.
    — Amy Panos, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The hospital has had to convert a recovery room into an area to treat intensive care unit patients.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • In the recovery room, Merzatta’s husband, Chris, lay asleep beside her.
    — Natalie Lampert, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
  • But those minutes could mean the difference between ending up in the morgue or a hospital recovery room.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Afterward, Helen would be escorted to a lounge chair in the recovery room.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • The macaque vomited in the recovery room and died after inhaling the vomit into its lungs.
    — Rob O'Dell, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2021
  • With a fully functional workout room stocked with state-of-the-art equipment and an athlete recovery room, work and working out go hand in hand.
    — Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2014
  • You may be allowed to be with them in the procedure or recovery room, so check in with the clinic and your friend about that possibility.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 7 Nov. 2018

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