Sentence examples for been reckoned from inspiring English sources
verb
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
- I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Joseph Addison.
Just ask Tomlinson, an athlete who has always been reckoned a contender but has been dogged by injuries.
("It has been reckoned," the older Orwell writes, "that in the late twenties there were as many as 30,000 painters in Paris, most of them impostors").
Professor Kirk said: "It had been reckoned that the CO2 fertilisation effect was somehow offsetting about 25% of the direct human induced carbon dioxide emissions.
That left them 9.7% higher than a year before, thanks to higher demand for machinery and transport equipment.Britain's economy grew more slowly in the second quarter, compared with the first, than had previously been reckoned.
It is that, odd as it now seems, history could one day come to regard Gordon Brown as a rather good prime minister, a much better one than he has been reckoned during his tragicomic premiership.
The College of Arms in London claims heraldic jurisdiction over persons of English and Welsh descent (Wales has been reckoned with England in this and all other administrative matters since the union of England and Wales, 1542).
She was someone to be reckoned with.
And he is reckoned to be a pretty good governor.
Dad is reckoned to be a decent skier himself.
Of this, 2m square metres is reckoned to be "underused".
Now it's reckoned to be more than 4 million.
