Sample sentences for RECOLLECT

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Definition

to remember — especially experiences from long ago

I think I recollect that she was away at college that year.

recollect = remember

I don't recollect her name, but I'd recognize her.

recollect = remember

I told him I didn't recollect my Pa; that I lived here with Granpa and Granma.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

recollect = remember

I don't recollect trying to get pregnant that first time.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

recollect = remember

Anne's recollections of the concert were quite happy enough to animate her features and make her rejoice to talk of it.
Jane Austen -- Persuasion

recollections = memories

(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)

The fact is, I have tended increasingly of late to indulge myself in such recollections.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

recollections = memories

A painful recollection flashed into his mind.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

recollection = memory

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

recollection = memory

I wrote down some of her recollections from her childhood.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

recollections = memories

Recollections like those merely remind me that he was not deserving of the fate that met him a little under two years later.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

recollections = memories

A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

recollection = memory

None of them had done an honest day's work in his recollection.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

recollection = memory

The speech was much the same each year: recollection of the time of childhood and the period of preparation, the coming responsibilities of adult life, the profound importance of Assignment, the seriousness of training to come.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

recollection = memory

How well I recollect the wintry ride!
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

recollect = remember

Please recollect the funeral I gave Miss Mattie Lou.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

recollect = remember — especially experiences from long ago

Recollect, or I'll pull your hair!
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

recollect = remember

but when I recollect all the uneasiness I occasioned her, and how little I deserve to be forgiven, I am mad with anger.
Jane Austen -- Emma

recollect = remember

She would invoke the past, recall old recollections;
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

recollections = memories from long ago

I do not recollect that we did.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

recollect = remember

In this occupation she hoped, moreover, to bury some of the recollections of Mansfield, which were too apt to seize her mind
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

recollections = memories

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