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32 example sentences for RECOUNT, such as:
1. Let us recount what had taken place.
2. I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.
3. The preface of this diary recounted her life in brief.
4. He then recounted the story of the interview for his first job.
5. The men were whispering speculations and recounting the old rumors.
2. I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.
3. The preface of this diary recounted her life in brief.
4. He then recounted the story of the interview for his first job.
5. The men were whispering speculations and recounting the old rumors.
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Meanings and Examples of RECOUNT
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recount
v. narrate or give a detailed account of
n. an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.
2 She could recount shamelessly and with pride how she had skinned people out of their eyeteeth and he would applaud.
3 Alas, I have still to recount the most distressing period of my life.
4 As we walked to and fro, all four together, before breakfast, I deemed it right to recount what I had seen.
5 A better course than to attempt to answer that question would be to recount the story of Tientietnikov's boyhood and upbringing.
6 Let us recount what had taken place.
7 The animals had now reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice.
8 It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.
9 And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think you have said the thing which is not.
10 The men were whispering speculations and recounting the old rumors.
11 Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.
12 While each passenger was recounting his story, the ship made her way.
13 Below in his hammock, Ahab did not hear of this till grey dawn, when he came to the deck; it was then recounted to him by Flask, not unaccompanied with hinted dark meanings.
14 He again recounted the events of the attack on the island at Glenn's, the death of his associates and the escape of their most formidable enemies.
15 Duncan, observing that she trembled in a manner which betrayed her inability to stand, gently induced her to be seated, while he recounted those leading incidents which it has been our task to accord.
Example Sentence:
1 A born storyteller, my father loved to recount anecdotes about his early years in New York.
2 When the Labour party candidate didn't win the election, he cried foul and demanded a recount.
3 The preface of this diary recounted her life in brief.
4 Rader seemed to proudly relive his crimes as he recounted his killings in gruesome detail, right in front of the victims' families.
5 Mr. Khodorkovsky recounted with a detached humor how, in the hours after a surprising clemency from his nemesis, President Vladimir V. Putin, he was awakened at 2 a.m.
6 He then recounted the story of the interview for his first job.