Example Sentences

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An interior ministry aide told the Interfax Ukraine agency that the military was recapturing the city "block by block".

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2014

Porterfield had told nobody�not even the Capitol police�that he was "recapturing" the Capitol from an imaginary but bloodthirsty mob.

From Time Magazine Archive

Architect Robert Adam was recapturing the glories of Greece and Rome in his neoclassic columns and pediments.

From Time Magazine Archive