Example Sentences

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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

I had convalesced from a severe attack of Edgar Allan Poe only to fall desperately ill with Whitmania.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James