Sentence examples for faint recollection from inspiring English sources

As for the young man himself, all he can offer them is the faint recollection of an abbey.

I still have a faint recollection of a boat ride, which was – and still is – considered a must-do by tourists, despite the pitiable state of the river.

He was not arrogant and he did not steal," said Jana Kubanova, 30, who brought her four-month-old daughter.Many young people in the crowd would have had only a faint recollection of the Communist rule, if any and the Velvet Revolution that brought Havel to power.

In her first letter, on Jan . 11 , 1915she asks for his photograph: "I have but a faint recollection of yellow hair and big blue eyes and a brown corduroy waist-coat that was very good-looking!" She signs it "Yours Fickely sometimes but Devotedly at present -- Ginevra," setting the tone for their relationship in which she alternately beckoned him to her and pushed him away.

Lamb said that although he did have a faint recollection of what had happened, he could not remember taking the shotgun, loading it or shooting anybody.

I have faint recollections of a hard chest and deep voice, stocky shoulders and tight arm muscles underneath silk button-down blouses.

I had only faint recollections of Miller from the 2006 Olympics, so I did some homework: although he entered those Olympics as America's great male hope, he had a very poor week -- no medals, two DNF's (did not finish) and one disqualification.

When Stimson showed him the tough statement he had initialed at Quebec he seemed "perfectly staggered," Stimson later recalled, saying, "I have not the faintest recollection of this at all".

A mouthful produces the faintest ghost of recollection but then so would the abandoned fishing smack.

A person who has fainted has no recollection of the incident, or, in other words, can't remember what happened.

Correction: September 25 , 2003 Thursday A report in the Metropolitan Diary on Monday about a reader's recollection of almost fainting while skating in Central Park misstated the day of the week on which the New York City Marathon is held.