recollect
verb (used with object)
to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
was recollecting
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past progressiveof recollect.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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 Eugène Sue
She was recollecting herself for a supreme act of religion.
From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by John Lespérance
He was recollecting many trifles, now his mind ran upon old times.…
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
Anne was recollecting that Colonel Musgrave had somewhat pointedly avoided her since her widowhood.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
