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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Only one or two of their number have even the slightest recollection of the curdling hope and sweet regret of 1996.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• And my recollection is the stock did not really perform all that well—[it] was not a up-into-the-right kind of story.
  — Glenn Solomon, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The show featured the artist looking back fondly on his old songs and sharing his recollections.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• The recollection, like all thought and movement, comes at an eye-watering price.
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
• And paired with recollection—or, perhaps more so, imagination—a small fossil can resurrect a whole world.
  — Eavan Boland, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2024
• The documentary includes heartfelt recollections of Sarajevans who went through the siege, as well as interviews with Bono and other members of U2 recalling their memories of that time.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024