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How to use recollect in a sentence

21 example sentences · verb

Recollect means to recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events. Example: “I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.”

Examples of recollect by meaning

verbTo recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

  • I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.
  • I recollect taking a very poor view of the apparently inadequate cabs of the Stirling engines, as compared with those of the Brighton; there were even to be seen at this time a number of the completely cabless Cudworths.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458

More sentences with recollect

  • As well as I recollect, he was about six feet tall.From the entry as well as
  • This is understandable when you recollect the price of wheat at that time.1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting auctioneer Aston Gaze, Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger…. From the entry comb
  • That made me recollect how Birdsong Creek had got its name.1956, Fred Gipson, chapter 1, in Old Yeller, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry house plunder
  • My hand was lifted at her door to knock, when I recollected the smallness of the island.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry smallness
  • O’Donnell sounded world-weary as he recollected trying to sustain strategies for big issues through games of ministerial musical chairs.2026 June 22, Tom Clark, “The ungovernable country? Why Britain keeps losing prime ministers”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry musical chairs
  • Then he recollected his sophistication to say: "Unless its being of that particular shade between brown and red was wrong."2007, W. D. Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry simple-heartedly
  • Not likely!" I hadn't seen Brucie for a while, but I certainly didn't recollect any hint of hunkdom about him.2006, Claire McNab, The Dingo Dilemma, New York, N.Y.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry hunkdom
  • And she felt of my face and neck like she wanted to recollect how they felt to her hand.2005, Hughlett Morris, Luther's Women: A Differnt Civil War Story, →ISBN, page 199. From the entry twicet
  • And where was the phone situated, as near as you can recollect, when you went to use it?1950 May 2, Lemuel J. Hanaman, quotee, Supreme Court of the State of New York. Appellate Division—Third Department. Lemuel Hanaman…. From the entry Delco
  • I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, page 20. From the entry meeting
  • It was an apple marshmallow sundae, I recollect.December 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, “My Battle with Drink”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry marshmallow
  • There’s a story about Paula Yates bumping into Diana, Princess of Wales that Yates’s friend Belinda Brewin recollects in the documentary Paula this week.2023 March 15, Zoe Williams, “It’s a good time to think again about Paula Yates. She was the other Diana: hounded by the press for being…. From the entry smörgåsbord
  • And I don't happen to recollect whether I did bring her up to speed on what Bert was asking for and so forth.1977, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions…. From the entry up to speed
  • I never did have a full name down in my daybook for him, just Sam or Joe or somesuch, I can't recollect that now.1955, Wilma Dykeman, The French Broad. From the entry somesuch
  • He recollected a gentleman in Admont who had a dog that gave birth to five young, three of which were cretinic, the other two feeble.1906, Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology, page 260. From the entry cretinic
  • They will give your child memories that will last a lifetime – cherished moments, which they will be able to recollect and smile at later in life.2017 January 24, Samina Hossain, “The dilemma of sleepovers”, in The Daily Star, archived from the original on 18 May 2017. From the entry lateover
  • Now admittedly, this has the look of a dormitive virtue argument: the reason the intellect can recollect its own activity is that it possesses just such a recollective capacity.2013, Charles Bolyard, Rondo Keele, Later Medieval Metaphysics: Ontology, Language, and Logic, page 147. From the entry dormitive virtue
  • Difficult as it is to recollect today, tiki was a highbrow phenomenon: Trader Vic’s in the Washington, D.C., Hilton, for instance, became a famed venue for mid-century power lunches.2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic. From the entry power lunch
  • But the Chinese Generalissimo is too well versed in the philosophy of his country not to recollect that it is foolish to fight with the certainty of defeat.1936, H. Hessell Tiltman, The Far East Comes Nearer, Jarrolds, page 249. From the entry generalissimo

Meaning of recollect

  1. verb To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
  2. verb To collect (things) together again.
  3. verb To compose oneself.

Full definition of recollect

Questions about recollect in a sentence

How do you use recollect in a sentence?
Recollect is used as a verb. For example: “I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.”
What is a short sentence with recollect?
“It was an apple marshmallow sundae, I recollect.”
What does recollect mean?
Recollect means to recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

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