Example sentences for: reckoned

How can you use “reckoned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Protestant Ames takes an equally hard line: "The unjust revealing a secret hath in it oftentimes the pernicious violations of trust, friendship, and honesty," and is therefore "not only in the common esteem of men, but in the Scripture also, reckoned amongst the most odious sins."

  • Until about 1150, Old English time was reckoned by nights, not by days, for the Anglo-Saxon language flourished in lands where nights were long and the days fleeting periods of light.

  • Tucker Carlson ( Late Edition ) and O'Beirne think McCain's and Bush's balancing acts show that the pro-life movement is still to be reckoned with.

  • In the CTC and higher up, the CIA's managers believed that they desperately needed funds just to continue their current counterterrorism effort, for they reckoned that the millennium alert had already used up all of the Center's funds for the current fiscal year; the Bin Ladin unit had spent 140 percent of its allocation.

  • After centuries of social and cultural direction from the guild's leaders (the professorial elite, the academic, scientific, and medical establishments), it is hardly possible for anyone in the Western or Westernizing world today to be reckoned (or to feel) educated without having been to school—and the more school the better.


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