How to Use recollect in a Sentence

recollect

verb

• She couldn't recollect who had mentioned his name in the first place.
• I've been trying to recollect what happened.
• From what I recollect, they said four of them were coming.
• I don't recollect telling him anything, but maybe I did.
• Years later, internees would recollect the cold, the heat, the wind, the dust—and the isolation.
  — Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2017
• Years later, internees would recollect the cold, the heat, the wind, the dust—and the isolation.
  — Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Who will endure through the mists of time to get recollected a decade or two from now?
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• The voice in the background of too many memories to recollect.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• But there were times when DeJesus was able to recollect events from the night.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• That makes this weekend a time to recollect and celebrate the good times.
  — Matt Nevala, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2019
• Thanks for giving me a reason to go back in time and to recollect a nice memory.
  — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 14 May 2022
• Ask those who recollect the eight years George H.W. Bush served as vice president.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• The account offered him not just a space for his creative energy, but a chance to recollect and write some of his stories down for the first time.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2021
• Last week, the Cavs lost the third quarter to Milwaukee by 16 points, unable to recollect themselves.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
• As works of art, the Vietnam War comics are only one of many places the Vietnam War has been restaged, remembered and recollected.
  — Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2017
• For the rest of his long life, Molaison was marooned in the early 1950s, unable to recollect anything new that happened to him.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2010
• Releasing the ball on the bounce in a forward motion to recollect the ball between the first and second bounce to legally allow the player to transfer tramp to tramp.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• FC Cincinnati tried to recollect the pieces, but was left scrambling and trying not to turn the lead into a deficit, which would eventually come.
  — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• As the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics draw to a close today, many will recollect some of this year’s highlights and look ahead to the next games due to be held in Paris in a little under three years from now.
  — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• Hays, on the contrary, had feigned not to recollect quizzing dozens of students on their times tables, the prosecutor reminded the judge.
  — oregonlive, 6 June 2022
• After suffering the first seizure, a friend of Ross' walked up to him to find out what happened but Ross couldn't recollect what had just transpired as he was knocked unconscious.
  — Nerisha Penrose, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2018
• There was only every single ant’s explicit sting in the cache of what my flesh had recollected.
  — Justin Phillip Reed, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
• Rather, Lerner is working a seam between what is recollected and what is imagined.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• From time to time, so Vera recollected, said Austerlitz, Maximilian would tell the tale of how once . . .
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017
• It’s constructed of steel tubing, with railings on each side that recollect a classic metal bed frame, spray coated with a glossy black finish.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
• And Pesca’s failure to recollect, in the view of some Slate staffers, suggests that management didn’t properly address the situation with him.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• Sachin Bansal, co-founder of the e-commerce major Flipkart, took to social media to recollect their relationship.
  — Pramod Mathew, Quartz India, 31 July 2019
• Rosalie tried to recollect it, and then laughed, remembering.
  — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• There are different accounts of that meeting, but these are things that Truman recollected.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• Metro bus driver Antonio McClendon recollects his actions after his bus was caught in the crossfire of a shooting that killed one his bus riders.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 26 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024