Sample Sentences forrecourse (auto-selected)
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He had recourse to his pipe that evening to help him study it out, much to Marilla's disgust. (source)recourse = a different way to accomplish something when the preferred way doesn't work
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Indeed, what recourse has she had in your absence, brother?† (source)
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If this launch fails, is there any recourse for Watney?† (source)
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Individuals could thus also ask philosophical questions without recourse to ancient myths.† (source)
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I hated to lie to them, but with Moody looming over me, I had no recourse.† (source)
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I know now that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.† (source)
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Alexander, I have gone my whole life without ever taking recourse to this path, save once, when I learned my lesson.† (source)
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When he became aware of his first bouts of forgetfulness, he had recourse to a tactic he had heard about from one of his teachers at the Medical School: "The man who has no memory makes one out of paper."† (source)
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At such times his only recourse was to pretend the questions had hit him in his deaf ear, the left one, which hadn't really worked well since the day of their big fight with the Keechis—what they called the Stone House fight.† (source)
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To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.† (source)
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If they wouldn't listen when you used your very loudest voice, a scream became your only recourse.† (source)
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Now, laid open, she had no recourse but to hurry along the tunnel of her anger, headlong.† (source)
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The decision to speak to Dr. Robert Stadler had been her last recourse.† (source)
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And yet I had no other, further plan; there was no good recourse from her required duties to the camp, there was no actual reprieve I was offering her.† (source)
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Forbidden to look at his superiors, much less walk into a room unannounced, he turned the latch and stepped in quietly, protected only by recourse to questions and statements such as, "You sent for me to collect the dishes?" or "The chef recommends the salmon pate."† (source)
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My only recourse, I decided, was to act bored, as though the company of no one but Nobu could possibly interest me.† (source)
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