Example sentences for: recapture

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

  • 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).

  • However foolish their 1956 conspiracy with Israel to recapture the Suez Canal, the U.S. decision first to vote with the Soviets to condemn them at the United Nations and then to apply what Gaddis calls "crushing economic pressure" on their currencies was hardly a collegial way to run the alliance.

  • Students also use college language classrooms to try to recapture the heritage languages they may have lost (for example, Hindi or Urdu), or ones they may never have acquired (Yiddish).

  • 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."


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