How to Use reckon in a Sentence

reckon

verb

• Do you reckon you'll be able to go to the grocery store after work?
• I reckon that we'll have to leave early.
• Losses were reckoned to be over a million dollars.
• They reckoned that they would reach their destination by noon.
• We'll have to leave early, I reckon.
• But rather than reckon with the horror of his death, Dorothy shut away the truth in her mind.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• The calendar was just one of the systems the Maya used to reckon time.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• All that said, though, that is a lot of TV for any one creator to reckon with.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2022
• For now, the HCS may have to reckon with a diminished place in the landscape.
  — Ethan Davison, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• All that said, there’s still the behemoth of Pride to reckon with.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 June 2022
• And so, for now at least, we’re left to reckon with Carlson’s time at Fox News.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• The name change came as the U.S. reckoned with its history of racial injustice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
• But Mass General Brigham is still the force to be reckoned with.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• Pham spent the past 10 years trying to reckon with his past and earn a second chance.
  — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021
• The near miss, coupled with my injury, forced me to reckon with risk.
  — Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2024
• Braun says it’s time to reckon with these thorny questions.
  — Grace Browne, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
• That was also the last time they were respected as a team to reckon with around the NFL.
  — Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
• Investors were forced to reckon with troubling signs from around the globe.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• These are the teams the Cowboys will have to reckon with for the foreseeable future.
  — Saad Yousuf, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
• With the past, present and future to reckon with, the series shoots off in a lot of directions.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• That's heady stuff, but exactly the kind of idea young people reckon with all the time.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 July 2022
• Maybe next year, maybe in five years, or maybe never, Lee reckons.
  — Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
• But there seemed a lava flow inside him that would not be easy to reckon with.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
• Alex and Ethan must reckon with their changing friendship and the process of coming out.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
• Yet both fans and haters have had to reckon with the fact that although the best Swift albums have evolved her sound, this one takes a U-turn.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022
• Yes, us Normals have found a way to reckon with the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
  — Sam Taggart, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
• Books In a new memoir, the author reckons with the attack that nearly took his life.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2024
• That has forced investors to reckon with the end of a decadeslong era of low interest rates.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2022
• But Arsenal may have to reckon with the fact Isak is already beyond their reach.
  — James McNicholas, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
• To create change, to prevent war, to free the unfairly imprisoned, and force leaders to reckon with their actions and want to do better?
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025