Example Sentences
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His expertise is measured instead by the number and recentness of trips he has taken to the country.
From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013
I did not, till now, advert to the recentness of his appearance among us, and to the obscurity that hung over his origin and past life.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden
At present, their minds are somewhat unsettled by the recentness of their progress; and in the exuberance consequent on such a state, some danger is to be apprehended.
From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of
The huddling together of our American cities is due to the recentness of the time when space was our greatest enemy and sparseness our chief discouragement.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
It is sufficient to have related events which the recentness of your intercourse with her hindered you from knowing but by means of some formal narrative like the present.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
