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to recall the past — especially to think or talk about it fondly- My parents like to reminisce about their college days.
- Sometimes they reminisce.Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event
- In those private moments, they sometimes reminisced about the summer and told stories about their dad, which they both found comforting.Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
- Red Pollard sipped his scotch and reminisced about Seabiscuit and quietly slipped out of history.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- As Max reminisced on that fateful evening, he found himself glowering ahead at Mr. Morrow.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Periodically the club would get together to sing, dance, reminisce, and raise money to help various charities.Leon Leyson -- The Boy on the Wooden Box
- We reminisced, we horsed around and we made fun of each other.Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
- From the time I put the desk into service, I kept a photo of Pop in the top left drawer and pulled it out every now and then to reminisce.Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real
- "The Allied liberators," he reminisced, "arrived, unfortunately, before we could gather enough data.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- Then we reminisced about a water fight we'd had a hundred years ago, and I felt a pang of sadness that next year Herman would be gone to start his life.Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
- If it was difficult to find evidence about the boy Riddle, it has been almost impossible to find anyone prepared to reminisce about the man Voldemort.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- They reminisced about past Christmases, or, as Francie put it, they talked about olden times.Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- "We talked, we ate, we reminisced," he pointed out.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
- But years from now, when you're feeling nostalgic about this summer and yet can't really reminisce because of a lack of documentation, don't blame me.Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
- Sasaki only wanted to reminisce about USC and boast of Japan's coming victory.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- They drank healths, told stories, sang songs, 'reminisced', as the old folks say, and had a thoroughly good time.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- Nina, her bangs in rollers, tilted her head as she reminisced about Passovers past.Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
- The prisoner reminisced.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- Barbara feels each mile and, as the hours pass, reminisces about her life, while Cedric, nervously cracking sunflower shells, has his eyes fixed ahead.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- But of all the secret punishments that Chacko tormented Mammachi with, the worst and most mortifying of all was when he reminisced about Margaret Kochamma.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
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