Example sentences for: recaptured

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

  • !) to "swinging" London, which has recaptured its 1960s hipness: Oasis and Blur are much admired; so is fashion enfant terrible Alexander McQueen.

  • In 629, Jerusalem was recaptured by the Byzantines.

  • It was recaptured from the Moors early in the Christian Reconquest campaign and, when Afonso Henriques declared himself the first king in 1139, the Minho became the independent state of Portucale (covering an area from the Douro to the River Minho).

  • Their farms were destroyed by the British in 1704, recaptured by the French in 1747, and held just eight years till the 2,000-strong community was expelled, to return a few years later and re-establish their farms all over again.

  • Ruled in the early sixth century by Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, it was recaptured for Emperor Justinian in 540, and Byzantine culture left its mark for another two centuries.


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