recount
verb (used with object)
to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
was recounting
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past progressiveof recount.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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“I thought it died with her, I really did,” Jennifer told me last November when she was recounting this story.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2023
Kuiper was recounting a visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City during the broadcast’s pregame coverage with on-air colleague Dallas Braden.
From Washington Times ● May 7, 2023
This was on a January video call, and Segel was recounting an early conversation he’d had with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein about their Apple TV+ sitcom “Shrinking.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
The president of the Medical Board of California, Lawson was recounting how she was stalked and intimidated by men who identified themselves as representatives of America’s Frontline Doctors, an anti-vaccine organization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Aunty Ifeoma was recounting how the security agents had come to the flat.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
