Example sentences for: recapture

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

  • 4) The new endgame under consideration is to bomb Serbian forces until their capacity to fight in Kosovo is so impaired that NATO can easily recapture Kosovo and set up an ethnic Albanian enclave under NATO protection.

  • The years from 1946 to 1949 saw the Dutch trying to reassert control; however, weakened as it was from years of Nazi occupation, the Netherlands was not able to muster the huge forces needed to recapture all the islands.

  • 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.

  • The celebrations at the Brandenburg Gate, it added, "could not obscure the fact that few, if any, Berliners tried to recapture the careless rapture of the event."

  • For his great Nymphéas murals, Monet himself chose the two ground-level oval rooms as those most likely to recapture the experience of coming across the water lily ponds at his home in Giverny (see page 76).


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