How to Use recur in a Sentence

recur

verb
  • There is only a slight chance that the disease will recur.
  • The same problem keeps recurring.
  • And the recurring themes from Year 1 of the Coach Prime Era have been felt both ways, too.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 25 May 2024
  • Keep an eye on it for a while to be sure the stickiness does not recur.
    oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Price This is going to be a recurring theme in this piece.
    Amanda Oliver, Field & Stream, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Taking flight is a recurring theme in the artist’s work.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The colors that recur are purple, dark gray, and steel.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
  • Day is set to recur on Riverdale after making her debut in the May 22 episode.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 10 May 2022
  • Wesley is billed as a recurring guest star in the new season.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The mother, far too worried to go to her own bed, lay down next to her daughter to wait for the strange shaking to recur.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • In a recurring theme for this case, that wasn’t all police found in Pike’s cellphone.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • James Marsden will recur as a guest star throughout the new third season.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The image of a man in a bowler hat with his face obscured is a recurring motif throughout Magritte’s work.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The funds in the list aren’t recurring streams of money, and so should be used to invest in a capital project, Johnson replied.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The link has been a recurring intrusion into my thoughts for years.
    Matt Curtis, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • And onto the runways: Tech’s power to shape our perceptions, and our lives, was a recurring theme at the fall 2023 shows.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 12 July 2023
  • This is a recurring problem for even the biggest cloud service providers.
    Max (chong) Li, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • Indeed, flipping the spotlight from the stage back to Abraham was a recurring theme throughout the evening.
    Freya Drohan, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The first phase of the recurring project is expected to cost $16 million with 65 percent of the money from the federal government and the rest from the state and the city.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The French group warned last month that recurring operating income in the first half would drop by as much as 45%.
    Angelina Rascouet, Fortune Europe, 15 May 2024
  • The show closed with a Champagne toast and Consuelos rolling out a cake shaped like a tin of sardines, harkening back to a recurring joke from the show.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Padalecki will appear in three episodes in a recurring role.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Doctors said that absent the surgery, painful shoulder setbacks were sure to recur.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • King tides will recur twice a month on the following dates: Tuesday through Wednesday.
    Wells Dusenbury, Sun Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Even though it’s set in ancient Egypt, Williams’s tale of a sister who avenges the death of her brother shows traces of what would become recurring themes.
    Loren King, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • One of the surreal aspects of the film is the recurring appearance of babies.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Aug. 2024
  • At the start of 2023, the company canceled all recurring meetings with two or more people.
    Anna Oakes, Quartz, 20 June 2023
  • One of the recurring players in the anti-Court campaign is Jodi Kantor of ...
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 17 May 2024
  • In a recurring segment, the director sits in a focus group with her subjects.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Five of Tuesday’s penalties were stick infractions, a recurring issue for the Sharks this season.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024

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