recollecting

Example Sentences

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“Before the fire was even reported, I walked outside and I smelled the fire,” Dudelson says, recollecting details over the phone, with his girlfriend by his side to corroborate the account.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

Greene nearly swooned recollecting the interaction in an interview afterward.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2024

Like the Sto:lo, many Coast Salish groups in the Pacific Northwest have oral traditions recollecting dogs whose coiled undercoats were spun into fibers and woven into elaborately patterned blankets.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023

Her style of hyperlinking in real time matches the hybrid way she works, reifying, refining and recollecting the thoughts that make a person up.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he said—

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë