recur

in a sentence

I've had recurrent symptoms.

This is a recurring story

The only thought that continually recurred was the yellow tear.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

This was to become a recurring scene in the Leep family chronicles.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

In my reading I'd come across a lot of information on malaria and none of it led me to believe the disease was as harmless as Nigel seemed to think. It might not kill, but it weakened and it recurred and it could lower one's resistance to other diseases.  (source) Octavia Butler, Kindred, 1979

Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Despite the fact that all the splendid modulations of the seasons and those colorful festivities that recur in the course of normal life have been replaced by a tyranny of indistinguishable days, the men in such situations will carve their 365 notches into a piece of wood or scratch them into the walls of their cell.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Two years ago, right here on this spot, I had a recurrent dream, too.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

It's a phrase that recurs in my dreams, my visions, Wilhelmina's book.†  (source) Libba Bray, Sweet Far Thing, 2007

In his thought she always appeared to him as he saw her at the fountain; and he felt the influence of her voice, sweeter because in tearful expression of gratitude to him, and of her eyes—the large, soft, black, almond-shaped eyes declarative of her race—eyes which looked more than lies in the supremest wealth of words to utter; and recurrences of the thought of her were returns just so frequent of a figure tall, slender, graceful, refined, wrapped in rich and floating drapery, wanting nothing but a fitting mind to make her, like the Shulamite, and in the same sense, terrible as an army with banners.†  (source) Lew Wallace, Ben Hur, 1880

Much as I dream recurringly about shrinking babies, I dream that the sky is covered from horizon to horizon with rows of airplanes, dirigibles, rocket ships, flying bombs, their formations as even as stitches.†  (source) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1975

I would dream this dream and wake up in a cold sweat or screaming. ... Soda began sleeping with me, and it stopped recurring so often, but it happened often enough for Darry to take me to a doctor.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

The phrase 'our new, happy life' recurred several times.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949