recollecting

Example Sentences

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It’s not much in vogue these days to quote Joe Biden, but the former president used to say something worth recollecting.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

Greene nearly swooned recollecting the interaction in an interview afterward.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2024

Queen Camilla empathised with Mr Oborne, telling him: "It must be very difficult recollecting it all."

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024

Like the Sto:lo, many Coast Salish groups in the Pacific Northwest have oral traditions recollecting dogs whose coiled undercoats were spun into fibers and woven into elaborately patterned blankets.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023

He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he said—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë