Example sentences for: recoup

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

  • The settlement was negotiated with a group of state attorneys general who were already suing or planning to sue the tobacco companies to recoup Medicaid costs for the treatment of dying smokers.

  • The Washington Post goes clear across its top with the news that the attorney general of Mississippi, Michael Moore, who pioneered the idea of suing the tobacco companies to recoup state health expenditures, has reached a $170 million settlement with them, one that goes into effect even if the proposed big national tobacco deal falls through.

  • The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers.

  • In 1993, when the Tony-winning Jelly's Last Jam announced that it had failed to recoup investors' money, the paper editorialized, "The Great White Way is ailing."

  • Even the drought in 1929 did not ease matters, and ten more years of bad harvests meant they would not recoup their losses.


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