How to Use recuperative in a Sentence

recuperative

adjective
  • Allow time for recuperative self-care, like a long bath or dinner with a loved one.
    — Gena Cox, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Housing for Health now has more than 700 beds for recuperative care across the county, with more in the works.
    — Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Above all, his poem — itself an act of study and interpretation — reminds me of the recuperative power of art.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Types of calming aid There are a few different ways to tackle anxiety, both as a preventive and recuperative means.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
  • The intent is to relieve pressure on local emergency rooms by providing recuperative care for the homeless.
    — Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Care recipients must be referred to recuperative care services by a hospital or clinic.
    — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 11 July 2025
  • The recuperative shelter, a smaller and more private facility with some medical support, is for those who are discharged from the hospital but have no home to go to.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The project had its Phase 1 grand opening July 6, in which a four-story, 96-bed recuperative care center was opened.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The Reno Motel had been renovated to provide short-term recuperative care for homeless people.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The stricter criteria applies to hundreds of spots in the nonprofit’s family, sober-living and recuperative care programs.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The cluster of Victorian buildings and picturesque landscape were designed to be a recuperative place for soldiers.
    — Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The cluster of Victorian buildings and picturesque landscape were designed to be a recuperative place for soldiers.
    — Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Housing for Health finds placements, generally in shelters or recuperative care centers, and transports them.
    — Doug Smith Senior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Schedule some recuperative time by booking one of the hotel’s Signature Spa’s five treatment rooms, either solo or as a couple.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
  • The remarkable recuperative project is a byproduct of the digital age but also of necessity—Bache’s portraits are poisoned.
    — Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • So, botanical delights are many and the blooming period is much prolonged by the cool night air and recuperative opportunities offered by a maritime environment.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 27 June 2021
  • Hopefully the Sun’s friendship with Jupiter will help keep you from harm, in spite of your celestial sign ruler’s disinterest in the recuperative powers of Chiron.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
  • County officials also made available more than 200 recuperative beds for those with serious medical issues, Price said.
    — Anh Do, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Promise shelter will prioritize women with medical conditions who do not require or qualify for recuperative care, Gloria said.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • The theory, then, is that having more recuperative care beds outside hospitals could relieve pressure on crowded ERs by reducing the number who end up waiting for an inpatient bed to open up.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Todd, who switches between speaking English and Spanish, has been in recuperative care for roughly two years, initially at another site run by Wesley Health.
    — Emily Alpert Reyesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Homeless people have unique needs that Medicare and Medicaid often can’t address, such as complex behavioral health services, transitional or recuperative care.
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Another 16 were admitted to a residential treatment program and one was admitted to a recuperative care facility.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Two diesel electric engines generate recuperative energy through the yacht’s propellers while sailing, supplying enough power for the hotel load and to charge its Lithium-Sulfur battery pack.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Among the additional 110 beds, 27 are dedicated to medical recuperative care.
    — Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The counties will work with hospitals, warming shelters, nursing facilities, recuperative care programs and other providers to help identify people who are eligible for the assistance and also track who is being helped, Karman said.
    — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The program enrolls them into on-site residential programs that include training and support, recuperative care, stabilization, employment, pre-treatment, Veterans’ programs and more.
    — AccessAtlanta, 2 June 2022
  • Riverwork, only her second novel after a lifetime of ludic, elliptical poetry, assigns itself an essentially recuperative and archival undertaking.
    — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
  • Under his leadership the organization started a recuperative care center, and rebuilt Nueva Vida Haven, an emergency shelter for women and children.
    — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • While patients are in recuperative care, they are tended to by a JPS nurse and nurse practitioner, and agree to contact JPS staff before going to the emergency room, Stafford said.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Nov. 2025

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