How to Use recurrent in a Sentence

recurrent

adjective

• The loss of innocence is a recurrent theme in his stories.
• The staffing shortfall has been a recurrent point of contention.
  — Ted Mann, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
• One recurrent pose finds everyone lying supine with a leg raised straight up.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Wrangling over finances has been a recurrent feature at the court.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• Crash is like a highway with recurrent scenery, any stretch of which seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once.
  — Becca Rothfeld, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2018
• These have caused power outages to become longer and more recurrent.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
• Brazil's southeast has been hit by heavy rains this year, causing recurrent floods and landslides.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2020
• Does the recurrent success of the program add any pressure to the team running it?
  — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025
• If this is a recurrent problem, pump a bit of milk before each nursing session.
  — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 22 July 2024
• Immigration has served as a recurrent subject in his work, on the screen and off.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• The company plans to back sales with recurrent training to keep pilots up to speed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Sep. 2025
• The process, which isn’t unique to colon cancer, holds the potential for a wide range of recurrent cancers.
  — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2021
• Heads are a recurrent theme— which feels apt, given Allen’s cerebral nature.
  — Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
• The patient was in his late teens and had endured recurrent infections throughout his life.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
• But recurrent neural nets can potentially take the state of the art even further.
  — Cade Metz, WIRED, 28 July 2015
• Until about five years ago, the most powerful were based on what’s called a recurrent neural network.
  — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• Wolfe said some people have recurrent symptoms, after the body tries and fails to fully fight off the illness.
  — Eva Flowe july 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026
• In what is likely going to be a recurrent theme this season, no one is ready for The Mule.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 18 July 2025
• Dizziness and headaches have also become more recurrent.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 18 May 2026
• There are recurrent calls for tech support, caffeine and blankets, because the rooms can get cold, like the pizza.
  — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
• And even now, the song remains within the top 10 of recurrent airplay at the format.
  — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 7 Sep. 2023
• The music, much of it composed of looping, recurrent elements, went on for hours.
  — Miguel Otárola, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• There are recurrent calls for tech support, caffeine, and blankets, because the rooms can get cold, like the pizza.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• The use of chemical weapons, a recurrent theme in the conflict that began nearly seven years ago, is a war crime.
  — Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
• Life jackets and the avoidance of alcohol while swimming or boating are recurrent themes on the lists.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2018
• Fin de siècle artists saw the original objects and triggered the new école, a recurrent theme down the centuries.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• As with many of the team’s liquid creations, the bar itself is a recurrent source of inspiration.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2024
• The floor plan of her childhood house, whose walls enclosed a fragrant garden, became a recurrent presence in her art.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2020
• Its evolving work aimed to meet the need for Japan to defend itself against the recurrent threat of invasion.
  — Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
• Then came recurrent ankle injuries that required him to compete with painkillers to get back into form for these Games.
  — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026