recount
verb (used with object)
to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
is recounting
-
present progressiveof recount (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Learner driver Teddy is recounting her fear at being tailgated by another driver mid-lesson.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
As the title suggests, the story reads as if the protagonist, a vampire named Louis de Pointe du Lac, is recounting his life to a reporter referred to only as the boy.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
Fast-forward to a blustery Halloween afternoon in 1990s Salem and a teacher is recounting the tale of the Sanderson sisters to a classroom of teenagers, more rapt and delighted than any teenagers I've ever known.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2022
Morgen is recounting his first three weeks on the project, when he sat alone in this room on L.A.’s Westside and listened to Bowie’s entire catalog in the order in which the songs were written.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
With what force the following lines describe the grateful feeling of a young clergyman, who is recounting the benefits conferred on him by his patron: O Melibœe, Deus nobis hæc otia fecit.
From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances
