How to Use recourse in a Sentence

recourse

noun
  • The dispute was settled without recourse to law.
  • If not, there’s recourse in the courts.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 30 July 2025
  • Pearce says the only recourse left may be the courts.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • What recourse do schools have if students refuse to wear a mask?
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 8 July 2020
  • There is no recourse for the victim.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Your best recourse is to be patient.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Congress has no recourse to stop it.
    ABC News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • There is a number of things people can to do to get recourse.
    Emy Rodriguez Flores, Redbook, 1 July 2020
  • What recourse does a tenant have in the face of climate change?
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
  • There was no recourse available from either her bank or the site.
    cleveland, 9 July 2021
  • Other home shoppers have no recourse but to save up on their own.
    Alex Veiga, Fortune, 20 May 2026
  • What recourse do Democrats have in this moment?
    NBC news, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Sending scam reports is the best way to get any recourse for these crimes.
    PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
  • At that point without recourse.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And what recourse do these children have when their basic needs are not met?
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Is its only recourse, then, to be funded by and made for the wealthy?
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Many workers have no contracts, and no recourse if they are hurt on the job.
    Martha Mendoza, Mahesh Kumar and Piyush Nagpal, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Has this bus already left the station with no recourse that could stop the changes?
    Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al.com, 20 June 2019
  • So, what recourse do passengers have if their pet is hurt or dies aboard a flight?
    Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Still, for them, there was no method of recourse after their business was shut down.
    Meg Jones Wall, Wired, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Further signs of impending fall may be found by recourse to the record book.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • My only recourse was appealing my case to the union’s rank and file.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 May 2025
  • Hunt’s only recourse is to run into the night and join his shoggoth brethren.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • So was this Delta's fault and do passengers have any recourse?
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2019
  • So, his only recourse is to try to impact the elections.
    Paris Barraza, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Since that seems to be the case, the only other recourse is to find or make more data.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Part of the problem is there is no real recourse for those who want credit for their dances.
    Moises Mendez Ii, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But there appears to be no recourse for tenants whose landlords don't take the deal.
    Adam Beam, Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Tourists who wind up on the end of a bison’s horn may find themselves with little recourse.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • Find out what recourse residents have for a recall, if any.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025

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