How do you use the word "recur" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "recur": Next year we'll recur to this issue. These are symptoms that may recur after some time.

Recur

/ɹɪˈkɜː/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbOf an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly.

verbOf an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially repeatedly., Of a disease or symptom: to happen again, especially repeatedly or after a remission or an apparent recovery.

Sentence Examples

Next year we'll recur to this issue.

These are symptoms that may recur after some time.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

repeat resort

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The doctor warned that the infection might ____ if she did not finish the full course of antibiotics.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The headaches continued to ____ despite the medication, prompting the doctor to order further tests.

Word Origin & History

Learned borrowing from Latin recurrō (“to hurry or run back; to return, revert”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + currō (“to hasten, hurry; to move, travel; to run”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”)). cognates * Anglo-Norman recurre, recorre (“to have recourse to”) * Catalan recórrer * Italian ricorrer * Old French recourir (Middle French recourir; modern French recourir (“to have recourse to; to run again; to run back”)) * Old Occitan recorre * Portuguese recorrer * Spanish recorrer

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"For it is manifeſt, that all the Arguments that are brought Chap. 2, Sect. 3. vvill recur vvith full force in this place." — 1659, Henry More, chapter VI, in The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 3, page 175:

"But ſtill, the Queſtion recurs, vvhether Man be Free?" — 1732, George Berkeley, “The Seventh Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XXII, page 183:

"All this pressed on his mind; yet the original statement recurred with the same irresistible force." — 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], “Repentance, and a Reconciliation”, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 159:

"But the knot of causes recurreth in which I am twined. It will create me again! I myself belong unto the causes of eternal recurrence." — 1896, Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Convalescent One”, in Alexander Tille, transl., Thus Spake Zarathustra […] (The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; VIII), New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, 3rd part, section 2, page 321:

"Finally the question recurred, but flung now like a challenging gauntlet in the lists: Why not order today?" — 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 449:

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