was convalescing
- past progressive of convalesce.
Example Sentences
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Artist Yuri Annenkov, summoned to do his portrait at the dacha where he was convalescing, said he had “the helpless, twisted, infantile smile of a man who had fallen into childhood.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
No complications occurred during the surgery or while the pope was convalescing in Gemelli’s 10th-floor apartment reserved exclusively for the hospitalization of pontiffs, according to the pope’s medical staff.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
Her husband, Arturo Ek, then got the disease from her while she was convalescing at home, and eventually died from it, she said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2021
He was watching this happen, and while his wife was convalescing, he sits down and writes “The Second Coming.”
From Slate ● May 3, 2020
When Richard was less than a year old my mother and father, who at the time was convalescing from a long illness, had left Philadelphia on a search for a complete rest in the country.
From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Davis, Charles Belmont
