Sample Sentences for
relapse
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    The doctor had said she could have a relapse.  (source)
    relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
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    I hadn't mentioned his relapse to her, mostly since it had passed without any significant drama.  (source)
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    Her large shapely body seemed to relapse naturally into stillness.  (source)
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    —whenever he subsided into affection, he called me Pip, and whenever he relapsed into politeness he called me sir;  (source)
    relapsed = returned to an undesirable previous condition
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    He handed in his resignation at once—and that night the Judge suffered a relapse and died.  (source)
    relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
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    Then checking himself and relapsing into his own tongue: "What's up on the train?"  (source)
    relapsing = returning to a less undesirable previous condition
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    He had remarried, stopped drinking (more or less) and suffered only occasional relapses.†  (source)
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    Fanny was silent, and Miss Crawford relapsed into thoughtfulness, till suddenly looking up at the end of a few minutes, she exclaimed, "Ah! here he is."  (source)
    relapsed = returned to an less desirable previous condition
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    Jacquie's latest relapse had not left burn holes in her life.†  (source)
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    She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o'clock that night she died.†  (source)
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    The staff had no obligation to tell anyone, but many of them had developed an uncanny ability to sense prob lems, especially relapses and complications.†  (source)
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    Lucas had relapsed, and she said it with a sad smile and a little shrug, the way you might say an alcoholic had relapsed.†  (source)
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    You know the singing could lead to a relapse in these patients.†  (source)
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