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
• While the recollection of her past is painful at times, the overall mood of the book is light and funny.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• 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
• End with a brief anecdote or recollection about the deceased that shows him in a good light, and of which the widow may not have been aware.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
• Tall, thin and strong, Virgil Lee Ward had been healthy for most of his old age, with a strong recollection of the battle that changed his life.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2021
• 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
• His recollection June 15 of last year was when the calls started pouring in.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 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
• Many investors don’t have the recollection of losing nearly half of their wealth in a matter of days, and as a result, market risk and crashes might not be top of mind for them.
  — D. Scott Kenik, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
• By his recollection, cars have crashed into people's homes or the wall surrounding the neighborhood several times over the past two years.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025