Example sentences for: recapture

How can you use “recapture” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The original church was built in the mid-13th century, converted into a mosque during the Turkish occupation, and seriously damaged during Buda’s recapture in 1686.

  • Straightened out for a while, Humayun came back in 1555 with his Persian army to recapture the Punjab, Delhi, and Agra, but the next year his opium habit caused his death (see page 64).

  • Instead, he will campaign for Democratic House candidates in the hope that Democrats will recapture the House and he will become speaker.

  • He goes through a shower of picaresque trials: Three men set on him (he single-handedly beats them off); he saves a pregnant woman from death, and another woman from a band of renegade federal soldiers; various men try to recapture him; he is seduced by a woman whose husband, discovering the couple, tries to shoot him.

  • That's what Liberty Heights attempts to recapture.


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