Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: regained
IPA transcription: [ɹiɡ'eɪnd]
Usage examples
  • By a supreme effort he regained some of his former fire and eloquence.
  • So saying he stroked the little dove, and she at once regained her natural shape.
  • With superhuman effort she regained control over herself--there was yet much to be done.
  • The poor fellow regained consciousness, and managed by morning to crawl six miles to a ranch.
  • The arrival of the brandy was not long delayed,--but the man on the bed had regained consciousness before it came.
  • The cheek, by an ancient process, the secret of which has been recently regained at Rome, was tinted with a delicate glow.
  • The captain, for a moment, seemed touched by the earnest appeal of the artist, but he regained his stern composure, and merely said:
  • At last he got hold of another kind of cabbage, but scarcely had swallowed it when he felt another change, and he once more regained his human form.
  • 'I owe you my life and my release,' he said, 'for without you I should never have regained my natural shape, and, indeed, would soon have been beheaded.
  • After the evil spirit left her and she had regained her wonted composure, she would pretend that she loved her "negroes," and would make a great fuss over them.