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Example sentences for: recapture

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In the town center, the shops and taverns on Lower St. George Street are being transformed to recapture the grace of the town’s Victorian era.
Built between 1886 and 1888, the Gate House was a Victorian attempt to recapture the medieval castle style, but it was more a cosmetic addition than a defensive structure.
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.
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.
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.