Example Sentences

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“It was a very odd experience,” he recollects with a laugh.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

He recollects that - together with diving partner Brian and Russian pilot Viktor - they went down in a small Russian submersible lowered from the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh research ship.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2023

She recollects watching the 2015 All Star Game with her granddad.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

“Cokeville recollects ‘miracle’ of 1986,” Deseret News, May 15, 2006.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2022

Michael, Terryl’s older brother, had trouble going against Danny, Patricia recollects.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel