How to Use recollect in a Sentence

recollect

verb
  • She couldn't recollect who had mentioned his name in the first place.
  • I've been trying to recollect what happened.
  • From what I recollect, they said four of them were coming.
  • I don't recollect telling him anything, but maybe I did.
  • Lord knows there are more than enough movies and books and memes and music to recollect.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Who will endure through the mists of time to get recollected a decade or two from now?
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • That makes this weekend a time to recollect and celebrate the good times.
    — Matt Nevala, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The voice in the background of too many memories to recollect.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Thanks for giving me a reason to go back in time and to recollect a nice memory.
    — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 14 May 2022
  • But there were times when DeJesus was able to recollect events from the night.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Those are words that penetrate, ones that recollect certain names and call forth our senses.
    — Hannah Benson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Years later, internees would recollect the cold, the heat, the wind, the dust—and the isolation.
    — Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Years later, internees would recollect the cold, the heat, the wind, the dust—and the isolation.
    — Smithsonian, 29 Jan. 2017
  • But given that the actor is able to recollect the instance, the situation seems to have been quelled.
    — Brittany Vincent, EW.com, 27 July 2023
  • There was only every single ant’s explicit sting in the cache of what my flesh had recollected.
    — Justin Phillip Reed, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
  • Those losses sank her into a morass of regret and substance use, which spurred a break from the industry to recollect.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Rosalie tried to recollect it, and then laughed, remembering.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Rather, Lerner is working a seam between what is recollected and what is imagined.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The account offered him not just a space for his creative energy, but a chance to recollect and write some of his stories down for the first time.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But the Bruins recollected themselves, and the flow state returned on the other side of the timeout.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There were no dates recollected correctly.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There are different accounts of that meeting, but these are things that Truman recollected.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • It’s constructed of steel tubing, with railings on each side that recollect a classic metal bed frame, spray coated with a glossy black finish.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
  • Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished and how they were threatened.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 5 June 2023
  • Hays, on the contrary, had feigned not to recollect quizzing dozens of students on their times tables, the prosecutor reminded the judge.
    — oregonlive, 6 June 2022
  • That suits the artless, unfiltered way Yo describes her life, spending a fair amount of time recollecting her own childhood.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Through its characters, the book stages an argument about the virtues of various types of maps—those that are measured, those that are recollected, those that are dreamed.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Releasing the ball on the bounce in a forward motion to recollect the ball between the first and second bounce to legally allow the player to transfer tramp to tramp.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • When Southern style has been recalled/recollected there were always polarities that would emerge.
    — Stephanie Granada, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2014

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