- present tense form of recount (3rd person singular).
recounts
Example Sentences
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"I saw the windows moving, and the only thing I could think to do was to get between the front door and a stone wall... to try to protect myself," she recounts.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
Ms. Torghele recounts how, upon their arrival at Ellis Island in 1921, immigrants were scrutinized for signs of disease.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
The book recounts Vance's conversion to Catholicism, a long road from the vaguely defined Christianity of his beloved, gunpacking grandmother who cared for him for most of his childhood.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
One Moneyist reader recounts a similar dilemma from her own life.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026
He was also a doer, a man blessed — as David Hackett Fischer recounts in his brilliant book Paul Revere’s Ride — with an “uncanny genius for being at the center of events.”
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
