recollecting
- present participle of recollect.
Example Sentences
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“Before the fire was even reported, I walked outside and I smelled the fire,” Dudelson says, recollecting details over the phone, with his girlfriend by his side to corroborate the account.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025
Greene nearly swooned recollecting the interaction in an interview afterward.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2024
Queen Camilla empathised with Mr Oborne, telling him: "It must be very difficult recollecting it all."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
“We were scared out of our wits,” Dr. Breman, recollecting his pioneer mission, told a National Institutes of Health newsletter in 2014, as a new and even deadlier Ebola outbreak raged that year.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Not recollecting myself, I began again that I was much obliged to him for his recommendation—
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
