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Example sentences for "regain"

Lexicographically close words:
refutations; refute; refuted; refutes; refuting; regained; regaining; regains; regaird; regal
  1. This act had made the chief very unpopular, and he was ready for a desperate venture to regain his influence.

  2. After I had fairly circled the camp, I turned again toward the river, hoping to regain the bottom lands.

  3. The visitor, again lifting his hat, briefly replied that he would come back later, and walked away, as if to regain the front of the house.

  4. He had lied to her about her letters--had lied to her when he found it to his interest to regain her favor.

  5. She was given plenty of time to regain her composure before they appeared.

  6. And this battle, which thus destroyed the prestige of Sparta, also led to renewed hopes on the part of the Athenians to regain the power they had lost.

  7. We have seen how the sons of Hercules, under Hyllos, attempted to regain their kingdom, but were defeated, and retreated among the Dorians.

  8. M343) After three generations, the Heraclidæ set out to regain their inheritance, assisted by the Dorians.

  9. But his absence was taken advantage of by the discontented citizens, who attempted to regain their freedom.

  10. They endeavored to regain their possessions, and invaded the Peloponnesus, from which they had been expelled.

  11. A restoration of the general health will result in the cure of these displacements, the uterus will regain its tone and muscular power, and the local derangement, with its attendant pain and morbid symptoms, will disappear.

  12. With proper treatment, they regain tone of body, vigor of mind, an increase of sexual desire, and become more attentive to business affairs, and less indifferent to the gentler sex.

  13. He feels that he is not what he formerly was; he seeks to regain his self-respect; he is dissatisfied with himself, and launches into fresh dissipation in order to drown the recollection of the last.

  14. But now he has launched too far into the stream easily to regain the shore.

  15. II The old banker remembered all this, and thought: "To-morrow at twelve o'clock he will regain his freedom.

  16. All night long he continued; sometimes stopping to regain breath, and then going on again, in spite of the thunder and lightning.

  17. We did our utmost to regain it, but in vain.

  18. Dejected, embarrassed, and occupied by a thousand inquietudes, as he then was, what would he now have given to regain the sense of innocence which alone can counter-balance a thousand evils!

  19. And on the other side of the door, Honor stood alone in the drawing-room, trying to regain some measure of calmness before returning to the breakfast-table.

  20. Dollier de Casson says of this: "Finally there was made a sudden patched-up peace in which our enemies acquiesced, solely to regain their own people and to have an opportunity of surprising us later.

  21. She had often read of the successful attempts made by young women to regain the affections of the men who had been cruel enough--in some cases wise enough--to forsake them.

  22. It was not till Claude had shown her the publishers' letter regarding the drawings--another visit had to be paid to The Knoll in order to show her this letter--that she began to regain confidence in herself.

  23. It took a great while though to regain what he had lost, and he had to sit for many a day in the easy-chair with his swollen feet upon a pillow, before his limbs would perform their accustomed office.

  24. It was a moment of penitence to good Mr. Bond.

  25. Nobody seems to cheer him as I can--can they, grandpa?

  26. Telramund is overwhelmed by his misfortunes, but Ortrud urges him to make another trial to regain what he has lost.

  27. Perifirime promises the hand of her daughter, whose father is the King of Cashmere, to Prince Lulu, son of the King of Chorassan, if he regain the stolen talisman for her.

  28. He that considers his work so soon as it leaves his hands, is prejudiced in its favour, he that delays his survey too long, cannot regain the spirit of it.

  29. Who does not see from all this that man has gone astray, that he has fallen from his place, that he seeks it with disquiet, that he cannot regain it?

  30. Shorty had him at his mercy, but he merely stepped back a little further, and waited for his opponent to rise and regain his position before he again advanced to the attack.

  31. Both sides had exhausted themselves in the awful grapple, and had to regain breath and thought.

  32. With the change in tune the boys seemed to regain in some measure the command of their faculties; at least they were able to rush close together, as though seeing protection in mutual sympathy.

  33. Why," observed Ted, after he could regain his breath in part, "that Phil Jackthon took the cake when it came to covering ground.

  34. Yet a minute or so the moonlight showed us the heads of the five survivors as they tried to regain the boat; had they done it we were all lost; then a huge wave separated them from us.

  35. We re-enter the city gate, and pass on our way by our house door, where we leave our bundle of eatables, and regain the high street of Berezdah.

  36. Manoela, of course, believed that the Englishmen were helping the imprisoned Dom Corria to regain power.

  37. Two days ago he would have asked no better luck than the helping of Dom Corria to regain his Presidentship.

  38. I was driven out twice at night by the rats," she gasped, though she strove desperately to regain control of her trembling limbs.

  39. There was no news from the Rock except that it still held out stubbornly, and that before Spain was forced by her allies to sign a peace she meant to make one last desperate and unprecedented effort to regain that mighty fortress.

  40. The robber, with a rapid motion, threw himself from his horse on the side opposite to Archy, and, with a spring, tried to regain his pistol.

  41. In order to regain breath I was compelled to halt for a few seconds, but those moments were full of intense eagerness.

  42. Stumbling on up a steep incline I was at length compelled to halt to regain breath.

  43. Once or twice we halted to regain breath, then panting on again, climbed higher and yet higher towards the most gigantic and wonderful palace in the world.

  44. Indeed, thou shalt regain thy liberty, and thy wives shall be returned unto thee if thou wilt disclose the hiding-place of thine ivory.

  45. By his orders Stone made a forcible attempt to regain control of the province, but was defeated at Providence and taken prisoner.

  46. Baltimore seized this opportunity to regain his position as proprietary.

  47. The men had left their muskets in the wagons and could not regain them.

  48. Other scientists scout this idea, saying that earthquakes are not caused by the adjustment of the surface of the earth, but by jar and strain as the earth makes an effort to regain its true axis.

  49. But the spirit of San Francisco would brook no successful rivalry and its leading men were united in a determination to rebuild a city beautiful on the ashen site and to regain and re-establish its commercial supremacy on the Pacific coast.

  50. Everything seemed to conspire against his willing desire to regain the faith of his childhood.

  51. For another moment he was able to regain possession of himself, and prayed for the cure of all, deeply touched by the belief that he himself might in some degree contribute towards the cure of Marie.

  52. But all his attempts to regain it had been in vain.

  53. I have every desire to regain my sight, but I repeat that I have no faith whatever in new treatment.

  54. It was her desire that I should regain my sight; it was my desire to discover her and look upon her face.

  55. In a matter of this magnitude you should--permit me to say so--endeavour to regain your sight and embrace any treatment likely to be successful.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    get; ransom; recapture; reclaim; recoup; recover; recruit; recuperate; redeem; refresh; regain; renovate; replace; replevin; repossess; rescue; restore; resume; retake; retrieve; return; revive; salvage


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    regain possession; regain their; regained consciousness