Example sentences for: recurred

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

  • The theory that the horse latitudes were so named because mariners becalmed there threw overboard the horses they were transporting because they died of thirst or starved seems almost impossible: in order for such an event to have given rise to horse latitudes it would have to have recurred many times, and it is hard to believe that 16th- and 17th-century mariners were so improvident as to have allowed that to happen very often.

  • Two years later, her disease recurred with bilateral pulmonary nodules and further progressed on systemic chemotherapy.

  • Bradley's choices, the Post notes, "display characteristics that recurred often in his public life: foresight, circumspection, and skill at finding advantage while adhering strictly to the rules."

  • (As an aside, I wonder how many times the word "hick" recurred in that short piece?)

  • , burning eyes, burning throat) recurred for over a year after applications ceased.


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