reckon
verb (used with object)
to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
am reckoning
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present progressiveof reckon (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am reckoning of my emancipation with an eagerness hardly proper at my years, but I cannot help it, so thoroughly do I hate London, and so much do I love the country.
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King
I am reckoning on my emancipation with an eagerness hardly proper at my years, but I cannot help it, so thoroughly do I hate London, and so much do I love the country.
From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.
I am reckoning what is the largest sum per month that you could reasonably be expected to spare, and how you may make the most of what remains.
From Mistress and Maid by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
I am reckoning as a British subject, and speak of fifty million merely as an illustration of the general fact that it is the multiplication of nobodies that makes a nation.
From Prose Fancies (Second Series) by Le Gallienne, Richard
There are but two families, and I am reckoning in the children.
From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire
