convalescing
- present participle of convalesce.
Example Sentences
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Robert Dickman, for one, was convalescing at a hospital in Queens.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Maradona was convalescing when he died of a heart attack at his home in 2020, aged 60.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 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
And when the baby was cured of the snakebite, it’d still need convalescing.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
