convalescence
Example Sentences
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As she writes in her new memoir, “Bread of Angels,” “Mine was a Proustian childhood, one of intermittent quarantine and convalescence.”
The city that he adopted almost by chance comforted him in his convalescence and inspired him to write his final chapter.
From Seattle Times
Similarly, a broken window in Venice, rumored to be shattered by Hemingway with a baseball during his wartime convalescence.
From Los Angeles Times
The post noted she fell at her home in Geneva and that “she will now have to undergo a short period of convalescence followed by a rehabilitation process.”
From Los Angeles Times
The word convalescence means grow in strength, so you will emerge stronger from the experience.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
