All 6 Uses
recur
in
The Shining
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- The food supplies amazed her but did not reassure her as much as she might have thought: the Donner Party kept recurring to her, not with thoughts of cannibalism (with all this food it would indeed be a long time before they were reduced to such poor rations as each other), but with the reinforced idea that this was indeed a serious business: when snow fell, getting out of here would not be a matter of an hour's drive to Sidewinder but a major operation.†
Chpt 2recurring = happening repeatedly
- The question recurred: Why had he called Ullman in the first place?†
Chpt 3 *recurred = happened again
- Fragments of his dream (it was all jumbled now, fading) recurred, something about George Hatfield and his father's cane, just enough to make him uneasy and, absurdly enough, a trifle guilty about holding a plain old garden-variety roque mallet.†
Chpt 4
- Reading the story Jack had been almost glad, and now, looking down at this machine, the feeling recurred.†
Chpt 4
- There had been other things at the Overlook: a bad dream that recurred at irregular intervals — some sort of costume party and he was catering it in the Overlook's ballroom and at the shout to unmask, everybody exposed faces that were those of rotting insects — and there had been the hedge animals.†
Chpt 5
- An old proverb recurred to her: God looks after drunks and little children.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(recur) to happen repeatedly or a second time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)