Example Sentences

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"It was… in that building that I was put in a band. We were called One Direction," he recalled, prompting screams from a sold-out crowd of 80,000 fans.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

"I sent him a letter at the Royal College of Art, where he was a student, inviting him to tea," Kasmin recalled in 2013.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Mariya Ostapenko, Druzhkivka’s oldest resident at 101, recalled taking walks along the city’s rivers with her late husband in the 1940s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Uhls said she recalled several instances of episodes modeling unsafe behavior, but declined to share specifics.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

“Alfred was a man of powerful physique, and had the brains and executive powers of a major-general,” the tutor recalled.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis