RECOLLECT in a Sentence

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217 example sentences for RECOLLECT, such as:

1. All I recollect is a grey sky.
2. Nor do I recollect its subject.
3. You doubtless recollect these papers.
4. I have no recollection of meeting her before.
5. The recollection cannot diverge, looks like the shadow to remain.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECOLLECT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
recollect
 v.  recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You doubtless recollect these papers.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
2  Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
3  I shut my eyes involuntarily and endeavoured to recollect what were my duties with regard to this destroyer.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  What he really did whisper, the minister could never afterwards recollect.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
5  Why, to be sure," said he, seeming to recollect himself, "people have little, have very little in their power.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
6  If you only hope to have your assertion contradicted, as I must suppose to be the case, you ought to recollect that I am the last person in the world to do it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35
7  And I recollect two bursting to the opposite side of the parlour, while she was hugging me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
8  It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect how eager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspected what I did leave for ever.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
9  I am glad to recollect that when the carrier began to move, my mother ran out at the gate, and called to him to stop, that she might kiss me once more.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
10  I turned over on my face, I recollect, to hide my trembling lip, which answered her with greater truth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
11  I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
12  We were left to ourselves now, and looked very blank, I recollect, on one another.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
13  If the funeral had been yesterday, I could not recollect it better.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
14  Nor do I recollect its subject.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
15  Distinctly as I recollect her look, I cannot say of what it was expressive, I cannot even say of what it is expressive to me now, rising again before my older judgement.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
Example Sentence:
1  All I recollect is a grey sky.
2  The recollection adverse current becomes the river, submerged your me.
3  I have no recollection of meeting her before.
4  To the best of my recollection I was not present at that meeting.
5  The recollection cannot diverge, looks like the shadow to remain.
6  My recollection is that essentially nobody opposed the principle for 7 years.
7  He has episodes where he disappears and when he is found again, he often has no recollection of where he has been.