How to Use recollection in a Sentence

recollection

noun
  • His novel is largely based on his own recollections of his childhood in the inner city.
  • Her recollection of the accident is very different from mine.
  • She has only a vague recollection of her seventh birthday party.
  • Even the gift shop tugs at the edges of my recollection.
    New York Times, 12 May 2022
  • And the Ikaris that Marvel will use next might have no recollection of the events on Earth.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Giuliana Naldi, the youngest, is the only one of the three with any recollection of the event.
    Charlene Pele, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2021
  • That recollection was echoed by a friend from Crooks' math book club.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • But that choice is more than a way to test our recollection of trivia.
    NBC News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • In your recollection, playing on the roof was your idea, right?
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Even so, in the friend’s recollection, Vance was strategic about it.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Paris Without Her: A Memoir is a tender and clear-eyed recollection of the best and worst of times.
    Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The Times reached out to the other 10 survivors as well; three shared their recollections while the rest did not respond.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In fact, the man seemed to have no recollection of what had transpired from the day before up through that morning.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • For part of the research, Sparrow shared recollections from her grandfather, who saw some of the last of the sqwemá:y as a young child.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Gibbs also said one of the witnesses in the case was working in a shop at the time, so his recollection of events could not be clear.
    Samantha Latson, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • My earliest recollection of Cousin Lou was about the age of 4 or .
    Helen Shriver Riley, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2021
  • But the 60-year-old had no recollection of having written that note just the day before.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Read more of Brown’s recollection of the heroic act by clicking the link below.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
  • That twist was the recollection of Anat, a woman who had become one of Kravchenko’s close friends in the psychiatric ward.
    New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Marco then has my father, to the best of his recollection, fall the same fall as on that afternoon.
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Woods has no recollection of the collision, and there were no witnesses to the crash.
    Kevin Draper, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The story opens with the narrator’s recollection of the owner’s hand on his thigh.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • His recollection of events lines up with Sparks’: Grande heard the song in a studio session, fell in love with it, and the rest was history.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Their recollections are accompanied by CBS News footage and reports from the time of the crimes.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The work reads like a recollection that fades at the edges, a memory carried in the artist’s fingertips.
    Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Payne shares his recollections of the day that changed his life, and one that millions will remember.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
  • With the anniversary of the date approaching, a few of those fans were happy to share their recollections.
    Lawrence Specker | , al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The recollections are enough to make Catherine hurl up her Bordeaux.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • In a memo to The Times, Kendi disputed many of the staff’s recollections of his leadership.
    Rachel Poser January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 4 June 2024
  • Three decades on, recollections of the drunken antics and petty feuds that marked the Britpop scene may have faded, but the era’s style iconography—and of course the music—remains.
    Naomi Rougeau, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2024

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