was recollecting
- past progressive of recollect.
Example Sentences
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Olympic hockey player Jeremy Roenick, explaining why players' rooms were damaged "He basically was recollecting what had transpired and was checking to see if Ms. Currie's recollection was the same."
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, now, only yesterday, I was recollecting how many persons in my own family I would rather should have died than poor D'Harville.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
He was recollecting words that she had said, silences which she had kept, glances which she had given him.
From The Grey Lady by Merriman, Henry Seton
Here he was recollecting his youth instead of concentrating on the task at hand.
From Regeneration by Dye, Charles
She was recollecting how much she had always liked him, and considering how much she would surely like him hereafter, in this renewal of their old half-cousinly and half-flirtatious intimacy.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
