recount
verb (used with object)
to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
had recounted
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past perfectof recount.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The BBC contacted him after a friend who listened to the Fairy Meadow podcast emailed with details of his story, which she said he had recounted for several years.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
But Hutchinson had recounted to the committee what she heard.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2022
On Wednesday, Sondland had recounted the same call, saying that he and Trump had used “colorful language,” but that he did not recall all of the details Holmes testified to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2019
Ginsburg earlier had recounted one of her last conversations with Stevens, who retired at 90 and died at 99.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2019
Told him that my father had recounted to me about the time they went to the bush to fetch firewood and accidentally shook a beehive.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
