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32 example sentences for RECOUNT, such as:

1. Let us recount what had taken place.
2. I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.
3. The preface of this diary recounted her life in brief.
4. He then recounted the story of the interview for his first job.
5. The men were whispering speculations and recounting the old rumors.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECOUNT
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recount
 v.  narrate or tell; count over again
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  I recount to you a joke but eet eez a true story.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  She could recount shamelessly and with pride how she had skinned people out of their eyeteeth and he would applaud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
3  Alas, I have still to recount the most distressing period of my life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
4  As we walked to and fro, all four together, before breakfast, I deemed it right to recount what I had seen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
5  A better course than to attempt to answer that question would be to recount the story of Tientietnikov's boyhood and upbringing.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
6  Let us recount what had taken place.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN
7  The animals had now reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
8  It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think you have said the thing which is not.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V.
10  The men were whispering speculations and recounting the old rumors.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
12  While each passenger was recounting his story, the ship made her way.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIII
13  Below in his hammock, Ahab did not hear of this till grey dawn, when he came to the deck; it was then recounted to him by Flask, not unaccompanied with hinted dark meanings.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
14  He again recounted the events of the attack on the island at Glenn's, the death of his associates and the escape of their most formidable enemies.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
15  Duncan, observing that she trembled in a manner which betrayed her inability to stand, gently induced her to be seated, while he recounted those leading incidents which it has been our task to accord.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
Example Sentence:
1  A born storyteller, my father loved to recount anecdotes about his early years in New York.
2  When the Labour party candidate didn't win the election, he cried foul and demanded a recount.
3  The preface of this diary recounted her life in brief.
4  Rader seemed to proudly relive his crimes as he recounted his killings in gruesome detail, right in front of the victims' families.
5  Mr. Khodorkovsky recounted with a detached humor how, in the hours after a surprising clemency from his nemesis, President Vladimir V. Putin, he was awakened at 2 a.m.
6  He then recounted the story of the interview for his first job.