person to be reckoned with
Example Sentences
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A 21-year-old girl named Valerie Lauder is a person to be reckoned with in Chicago journalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I had remained rather a person to be reckoned with at the Union.
From The Message by Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew)
He loomed large and substantial in the forefront of her thoughts, a person to be reckoned with, no longer the vague figure which had hovered indistinctly amid the confusion of her mind.
From The Stronger Influence by Young, F.E. Mills
He was well dressed in a rough way, evidently a superior sort of farmer, and physically a person to be reckoned with.
From The Man Who Lost Himself by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
He fell back on a previous statement: "And I am a person to be reckoned with."
From Victory An Island Tale by Conrad, Joseph
