Sentence examples for recollect from inspiring English sources
'recollect' is a correct word in written English. It can be used to mean 'to remember or recall something'. An example sentence might be: I closed my eyes and tried to recollect the events of the previous evening.
When Watson asked if Sinodinos knew in his capacity as treasurer about the donations, he replied he "cannot recollect" being aware of it at the time.
When asked if he could deny Schott warned him about AWH's expenses, Sinodinos replied: "I can't recollect whether she said it or not".
It can be hard for anyone to recollect his motives at a distance; memory often sanitises and ennobles, even in much more trivial cases than the launching of a devastating war.
Few now recollect Eden's general-election win or Callaghan's proto-modernising; some leaders, such as Alec Douglas-Home, are barely remembered at all.
While Mr Byers had personal traits that exacerbated his difficulties, in particular a tendency to recollect conversations rather differently from others that had been party to them, he was New Labour made flesh.More than anything, Mr Byers was brought down by spin.
Both books are occasionally sentimental, but so are most mourners when they recollect their loved ones.
His buyers wanted to recollect the city's beauty, not the life of its people.
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