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
One way to re-collect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times.
From The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
When his household cares obliged the ministrant to leave her room, Nydia began to re-collect her thoughts.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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
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
