recentness

Example Sentences

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His expertise is measured instead by the number and recentness of trips he has taken to the country.

From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013

The recentness of the death of Rodney's mother gave an adequate excuse for such an arrangement, but the comparative narrowness of the Stantons' domestic resources enforced it.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

At present, their minds are somewhat unsettled by the recentness of their progress; and in the exuberance consequent on such a state, some danger is to be apprehended.

From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

The huddling together of our American cities is due to the recentness of the time when space was our greatest enemy and sparseness our chief discouragement.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various

But first, in order that this colossal adventure may be fully grasped, the recentness and the remoteness of Alaska must be emphasized. 

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack