REMINISCE in a Sentence

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Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these merry reminiscences.

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 Meanings and Examples of REMINISCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reminisce
 v.  recollect and tell of past experiences or events; talk or write about memories of the past, especially pleasant memories
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  With that he fell to recalling certain reminiscences.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
3  I have hundreds of such reminiscences; but at times some one stands out from the hundred and oppresses me.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
4  He was evidently uncomfortable at these reminiscences, and was, I fancy, always afraid that I might take up the same tone again.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
5  The little princess, plump and rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these merry reminiscences.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
7  What she drew from the guitar would have had no meaning for other listeners, but in her imagination a whole series of reminiscences arose from those sounds.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
8  Sonya, as always, did not quite keep pace with them, though they shared the same reminiscences.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X
9  And he went on to inquiries about the Grand Duke and the state of his health, and to reminiscences of the gay and amusing times he had spent with him in Naples.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV
10  They spoke of personal reminiscences, of amusing scenes they had witnessed during the campaign, and avoided all talk of their present situation.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
11  In the evening I used to go back to the prison, and walk up and down the parade with Mr. Micawber; or play casino with Mrs. Micawber, and hear reminiscences of her papa and mama.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
12  But in favor of foreign travel I would urge the change of habits, the removal from conditions calling up reminiscences.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
13  However often he told himself that he was in no wise to blame in it, that recollection, like other humiliating reminiscences of a similar kind, made him twinge and blush.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
14  The sight of other people, their remarks, his own reminiscences, everything was for him a source of agony.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
15  After wavering among reminiscences and anecdotes of guns, of dogs, and of former shooting parties, the conversation rested on a topic that interested all of them.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  When you have that spiritual connection to the meal, there is more of a reason for families to sit together, to talk, to laugh and to reminisce.
2  Her music is full of reminiscences of African rhythms.
3  All of us were deeply absorbed in happy reminiscences.
4  The book is a collection of his reminiscences about the actress.
5  We cannot even say that her music is a: pastiche of this composer or that; it is, rather, reminiscent of many musicians.
6  Her reminiscence of her summer experience is so fascinating that she ought to write a book.