recollection

Example Sentences

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The Beckhams have yet to respond, and as ever with such affairs, recollections may vary.

From BBC

During the Jewish diaspora, special volumes were created to preserve the recollection of towns and villages that had been erased in the Holocaust.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Schilinski roams in and out of all the impressions and recollections, most of them stained by sadness and regret, without turning maudlin or melodramatic.

From The Wall Street Journal

I had a sudden recollection of booming laughter and the thick smell of pipe tobacco.

From Literature

With the dessert’s many names come many historical recollections of its origin.

From Salon