convalesce

To convalesce, they stay in this compound, and exercise by walking around its well-ordered clusters of three-story buildings and a synthetic turf avenue with a playground and soccer field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

A volunteer with the group drove the bird to the Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware, where the owl continues to convalesce and regain the strength to fly regularly.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

My argument is that if you learn this new language of the body and learn how to to be kind to yourself and to convalesce properly, you will convalesce much better.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

As they convalesce, the children have told relatives harrowing details of their time in the jungle.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

So the king and the prime minister and the lord chancellor would all be looking for somewhere to convalesce it.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

We’re doing this interview over Skype – me in London lockdown, he at his 78-year-old mother’s house in the hills above Los Angeles: he’s looking after her while she convalesces from surgery.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2020

As Farrell’s character convalesces, it becomes increasingly unclear whether he is manipulating his female caregivers or whether they are playing out their own power games through him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2017

The hospital in which Moose convalesces from his heart attack is “a department store for sadness”; his cough is “small, way short of a proper hack, a kind of diet cough.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2016

Lundqvist is expected to miss at least two more weeks as he convalesces after a vascular injury to his neck.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2015

By and by, when he wakes up and convalesces, he’ll ask shamefacedly whether he didn’t act and talk like an awful fool during his delirium.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram

Cinderella underwent a successful operation at VCA Lakewood Hospital and convalesced at a volunteer’s home for a month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Ranger convalesced in a medical quarantine pool specially designed to increase his eating and weight, while strengthening both his immune system and his bond with human caregivers.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2022

She decided, too, that it would be good to perform as she convalesced, even when her stamina was low.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2015

But he did have one precious commodity as he convalesced: time.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2015

For five years now she had convalesced in confinement, but she still had not healed.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Robert Dickman, for one, was convalescing at a hospital in Queens.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

During their tour, they met with the convalescing Pope at the Vatican and enjoyed a state banquet in their honour.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025

More than a dozen koalas were convalescing in open-air enclosures, wrapping their woolly arms around the trunks of eucalyptus trees.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

Pink needed two surgeries and almost two months of recovery at the same aviary where Blue is convalescing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

In keeping with the therapeutic mores of the age, he decided to do his convalescing in Europe, where the scenery also would provide an opportunity for him to enrich his visual vocabulary.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson