Example Sentences

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Ruff recounted the salon owner saying, "Oh my God, did you hear? One of the contestants is from Bethlehem. He's a cop. I was like, 'Oh my God, that's crazy.'"

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

At a recent cocktail hour for young professionals on Akron’s North Side, Alexis King, 31, recounted “grudgingly” moving to Akron from Philadelphia in 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

"It's very difficult, it is breaking my heart to wait for something uncertain," 47-year-old Casilao said, crying as she recounted how she slept alone at a local government building overnight Sunday.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

In a nearby tent was Zuhoor Musa Abdul Rahman, a 30-year-old housewife who recounted with unnatural calm the horrors that spurred her to flee El Fasher, a city some 300 miles east of Obeid.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

He later recounted: “I felt bad when the pen was handed to me, because it looked like the ones that I was always buying for a quarter or a half dollar.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady