RECOURSE in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for RECOURSE, such as:
1. Sometimes the poor have recourse to me for help.
2. The post's recourse to arms was not without result.
3. The enemy may have recourse to steel instead of poison.
4. We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.
5. She had recourse to the expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear.
2. The post's recourse to arms was not without result.
3. The enemy may have recourse to steel instead of poison.
4. We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.
5. She had recourse to the expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear.
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Meanings and Examples of RECOURSE
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recourse
n. something or someone turned to for assistance or security
n. act of turning to for assistance
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 She had recourse to the expedient of children who live in a constant state of fear.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
2 Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies.
3 The post's recourse to arms was not without result.
4 The consequence is that when I saw our laborers, which did not at all suit two such delicate stomachs as ours, I had recourse to a little of my old trade.
5 For people toward whom he had but to put forth his hand, his Eminence had rarely recourse to such means.
6 Interrupting the dialogue by this abrupt transition, the scout had instant recourse to the fragments of food which had escaped the voracity of the Hurons.
7 It was, perhaps, owing to this circumstance, in addition to the necessity of keeping every hand employed at the paddles, that the Hurons had not immediate recourse to their firearms.
8 Duncan, who knew that silence was a virtue among his hosts, gladly had recourse to the custom, in order to arrange his ideas.
9 So he had recourse to the usual means of gaining time for such cases made and provided; he said "ahem," and coughed several times, took out his pocket-handkerchief, and began to wipe his glasses.
10 For when none such is regularly provided, recourse will be had to irregular channels, and these will assuredly lead to much worse results.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII.
11 The nobles, in their efforts to baffle him, had recourse to religion, which they sought to turn to account in two ways.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
12 As for leagues, I know of no nations who have had recourse to them in recent times except the Swiss and the Suevians.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
13 But had Tarquin lived like the other kings, when Sextus his son committed that outrage, Brutus and Collatinus would have had recourse to him to punish the offender, and not to the commons of Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V.
14 Our higher officials are fond as a rule of nonplussing their subordinates; the methods to which they have recourse to attain that end are rather various.
15 Sometimes the poor have recourse to me for help.
Example Sentence:
1 In this stage, the intellect is able to grasp all knowledge, and does not need to have recourse to the senses again.
2 What other recourse is there for him in such a conflict than to flee or to die in the attempt?
3 The enemy may have recourse to steel instead of poison.
4 We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.