Sentence examples for reckons how from inspiring English sources

In "The Nines," his epithalamium, or marriage poem, for Ms. Tata, which was published in The New Yorker, a man reckons how many years of happiness he has left with his beloved: "Darling, I reckon maybe thirty years,/ given our ages and expectancies./ Barring the tragic or untimely, say,/ ten thousand mornings, ten thousand evenings,/ please God, ten thousand moistened nights like this".

I cannot reckon how a pen can create insecurity for these leaders.

Sometimes, shocked wide awake, I've tried to reckon How many lives -- fifty, a hundred thousand?

Patrick Buchanan's latest book is called "Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology and Greed are Tearing America Apart".

He just seems as if he were in his new book, "Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart".

He also talks about the "reckoning" – how, although the rest of the world has moved on, in Bosnia there has been no thaw in the hatred, and the war is still alive.

As an adult she would allude to childhood molestations (when reckoning how many lovers she's had, Capote's Holly dismisses "anything that happened before I was 13, because, after all, that just doesn't count").

It's relatively easy to reckon how that could happen since, unlike its rivals, the Mail shuns newsroom integration and runs online operations totally separately, which means that costings and revenue are separate, too.

There is no evidence that either sister gave birth to the infant, and some neighbors who knew the family tried to reckon how no one had noticed whether one of the sisters had been pregnant.

Yet futurists who project declining automobile travel as a result of telecommuting fail to reckon how small a number of telecommuters now exists (3percentt of the population), how small a percentage of miles is racked up by the commute, and how large a percentage is needed for errands in sprawling suburbs.

Starting in the 19th century, western businessmen have lusted at the potentially large Chinese consumer market: "If we could sell just one tube of toothpaste to everyone in China…," dreamers would reckon, how fat we would be?