Example sentences for: recapture

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

  • The First Crusade was organized to help the Byzantines recapture the Holy Land from the “infidel” Muslims, and resulted in victory for the Crusaders.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We try to recapture them with genre schlock, as though the dream world of our youth were a tacky theme park.

  • 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.


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