re-collect
Example Sentences
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And why didn’t the refs call a foul when Bryce Brown grabbed Jerome’s jersey as Jerome was trying to re-collect the ball just before he double-dribbled?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
We try in vain to re-collect; but the secrets of the grave are not more inviolable, - for the beginnings, like the endings, of life are lost in darkness.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke
The Indians, however, made no complaint; but as we gained a height above them, we saw them exerting themselves to re-collect their scattered cavalcade.
From On the Banks of the Amazon by William H. C. Groome
The King lay for some moments silent, but evidently striving to re-collect his thoughts.
From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
But how shall I describe her arts To re-collect the scatter'd parts?
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by William Ernst Browning
