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How to use reckon in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Reckon means to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. Example: “I reckon he won't try that again.”

Examples of reckon by meaning

verbTo conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective...

  • I reckon he won't try that again.
  • I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.
  • The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily reckoned, for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 250

nounAn impression or opinion.

  • Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'2009, Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, page 264
  • I wouldn't get much of an idea what the site was like until daylight but it was close to the cook fires and the food stalls and entertainment tents so, my reckons it was perfect.2020, R. H. van de Weert, Reveille
  • I have beckoned vigorously & my reckons have passed into a vast sea of stones, rearing the strong feelings, the dawn of light emerged; surfacing the depths of the deep & the depths was beckoning coldly.2020, Marvin J. Everheart, The Vision of M.E.

More sentences with reckon

  • If he lets you down, he'll have me to reckon with.From the entry to
  • Looking at the polling, I don't reckon this referendum will get up.From the entry get up
  • He reckoned the distance without any instruments or maps with surprising accuracy.From the entry reckon without
  • I always wanted to give windsurfing a try. I reckon it could be fun.From the entry give something a try
  • I reckon the trees are greener in spring than in winter. —You think?From the entry you think
  • Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.From the entry market
  • Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.From the entry citizen
  • I think he reckons he’s a bit of a lad.From the entry lad
  • I reckon the image is a photoshop.From the entry photoshop
  • I reckoned on my pension being enough.From the entry reckon on
  • I didn't reckon on him having a gun.From the entry reckon on
  • We'll reckon with him after the deed is done.From the entry reckon with
  • He reckoned without the need to pay taxes.From the entry reckon without
  • I reckon upon all others to do likewise.From the entry reckon upon
  • I reckoned him up as a troublemaker at first glance.From the entry reckon up
  • I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.From the entry reckon with
  • We reckoned him up pretty bad.From the entry reckon up
  • Chinese New Year always occurs in January or February but is called the "Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.From the entry spring
  • Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.From the entry butty
  • He reckoned the bodyshells were rock-solid, even after 20 years, as were the bogies.2026 April 1, Philip Haigh, “Close encounter with '185s' inside Ardwick depot...”, in RAIL, number 1058, page 42. From the entry foreseeable
  • Reckon I better be steppin' over to Vander's and see can I borry their cow.2019, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory. From the entry borry
  • No one reckoned in advance that he had anything but a very testing job as host.2016 March 3, David Thomson, The Guardian. From the entry triumph
  • Fenn announced that he reckoned he would be a double uncle if Harriet would let him.2013, Philippa Carr, Lament for a Lost Lover. From the entry double uncle
  • They reckon the lake could freeze over again if this weather gets worse.'2012, Craig Robertson, Cold Grave, →ISBN. From the entry baltic
  • Well, I reckon that all of us Singing Glenways ain't crossing our fingers for you.2011, Bette Greene, Get On Out of Here, Philip Hall, →ISBN. From the entry cross one's fingers
  • I reckon you're going to need all the help you can get.2011, Paul A. Rose, “Saturday; Love is in the Air”, in Los Hombres de Bolton (The Men from Bolton), Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicester…. From the entry a friend in need is a friend indeed
  • Over 70% of the city population is reckoned to be Kazakh or Uzbek and only 15% Russian.2010, Michael Fergus, Vitaliy Krotov, “Other cities”, in Kazakhstan: The Business Traveller’s Handbook (Gorilla Guides: Travel Handbooks…. From the entry Kazakh
  • They're the sort of names you choose if you think you're someone to be reckoned with.2010, Sophie Hannah, A Room Swept White, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry Wayne
  • Would reckon you have had your crawful of this country by day or night."2010, Theodore V. Olsen, The Stalking Moon. From the entry crawful
  • And, I said to myself, 'This is woman to be reckoned with.'2009, Cicely Tyson, Leading Women: Maya Angelou, season 1, episode 5. From the entry carriage
  • I reckon it's pretty astonishing that none of us did go off the rails.2009 July 10, Jenny Johnston, “You won't catch us going to rehab: So have the young stars of Harry Potter turned into superbrats?”, in…. From the entry off the rails
  • Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.2008, Matthew Stevens, “Lew pressured to reveal what he knows”, in The Australian. From the entry post
  • You live to middle age, you begin to reckon with life's limits, you know?2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.29-30. From the entry cynic
  • Edward Garnett reckons you're the best new thing in the Empire, and so do I.2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, 2nd edition, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.: Pip…. From the entry skite

Meaning of reckon

  1. verb To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
  2. verb To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
  3. verb To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

Full definition of reckon

Questions about reckon in a sentence

How do you use reckon in a sentence?
Reckon is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I reckon he won't try that again.”
What is a short sentence with reckon?
“I didn't reckon with his stubbornness.”
What does reckon mean?
Reckon means to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reckon (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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