fail to recall

Example Sentences

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I fail to recall the names of some men I once professed to love, but try as I might, I do not forget those lines.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2018

Studies have shown that a victim of a crime may remember a specific piece of information from the horrid event, such as the attacker's jacket or a strange smell, but fail to recall other details.

From Scientific American • Nov. 30, 2012

Later Eisman would fail to recall what Wing Chau looked like, what he wore, where he’d come from, or what he ate and drank—everything but the financial idea he represented.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

And the following cannot fail to recall a similar thought in Tacitus, “History undertakes to record the transactions of the past for the instruction of future ages.”

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford

The reader cannot fail to recall the same illustration in John i.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing