How to Use reckoning in a Sentence

reckoning

noun

• The team is still in the reckoning.
• Because of his injury, he is out of the reckoning.
• When the day of reckoning comes, we will have to face some unpleasant truths.
• Our football team hardly comes into the reckoning.
• I was more than $10 off in my reckoning.
• The United States is in a new era and the days of reckoning are here.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• April is a month of reckoning, and a lot of that won’t be fun to go through.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024
• That hasn’t happened—yet—but the prospect of the platform’s end has forced a reckoning.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
• For him, 2024 could in fact turn out to be a final reckoning.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• And over the past 18 months, the industry has faced a reckoning: What goes up must come down.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
• This does not happen in the film, and in the grand reckoning with the king, Prince Henry’s mother is nowhere in sight.
  — Samuel Maude, ELLE, 11 Aug. 2023
• Floyd's death triggered a string of racial reckoning in the country and months of protests across the country.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Then June came, which is when the racial reckoning in 2020 happened.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
• The Voyage Home—in other words, all the best Trek movies, by most fans' reckoning.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022
• And while a reckoning of sorts has begun over the last few years, any attempt to get at the root of it all feels far away.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
• When the #MeToo reckoning came and Hollywood needed to change, again the Guild spoke up.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2023
• This is a reckoning that has been in the making since the civil rights movement.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
• For Naumann, such fetishization falls far short of a reckoning with the past.
  — Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• To truly adapt to the future will require a reckoning with our way of life.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
• That was 20 years ago, and what came of it was a national reckoning.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• And that really was a, a reckoning for me, that this was gonna be my career.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2023
• By some reckoning, these are the best automotive buys in the world.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• That has forced a bit of a reckoning in the GOP, after three bad elections under Trump.
  — Aaron Blake, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• And there are stories, there are lessons, there are reckonings that have to come through us as vessels.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
• Yet the shock to the tech ecosystem and its elite may still bring down a reckoning for many who believe it’s got nothing to do with them.
  — WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• All of this is prelude to the coming reckoning at next month’s synod.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Part of what is happening is a reckoning of sorts with notions of how work has and should be done.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
• The year 2025 will also mark a reckoning in AI adoption.
  — Forrester, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• But, in his reckoning, this was a reason to work even harder to stifle the trade, rather than a reason to weaken sanctions.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• But by her reckoning, the system has — belatedly — gotten a few things right: Last year, after reviewing a copy of the recantation, the state released Duran on parole.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024