person to be reckoned with
Example Sentences
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A 21-year-old girl named Valerie Lauder is a person to be reckoned with in Chicago journalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is a person to be reckoned with.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
It is hard to invest Mother Beggarlegs with importance, but the date helps me—the date I mean, of this chapter about Elgin; she was a person to be reckoned with on the twenty-fourth of May.
From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
He was well dressed in a rough way, evidently a superior sort of farmer, and physically a person to be reckoned with.
From The Man Who Lost Himself by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
He fell back on a previous statement: "And I am a person to be reckoned with."
From Victory An Island Tale by Conrad, Joseph
