recollection

Example Sentences

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It’s bathed in sunlight that only occasionally shines on an ephemeral memory, revealing that the recollection is laced with as much honest love as regret.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

Winning the Oscar for “The Accidental Tourist” was a more pleasant recollection for Davis, although she was thrown by a bizarre incident as she was relaxing a few hours before the ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

“Oh, yes, the boring religious one,” a friend said with something of a sigh, asked if she had any better recollection than I about Mary Bennet, the middle child in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

“Even in Argentina there, my recollection is there have been about three superspreader events,” said Gregory Mertz, an infectious-disease doctor at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center who studies the hantavirus.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

I have only the haziest recollection of waving at my mother and sister in a rising cloud of diesel exhaust and mosquitoes as they began their slow, permanent exodus from the Congo.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver