Example sentences for: reckoned

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • One thing M. Tesnières hasn't reckoned with, though, is the Anglo-Saxon input.

  • O ne cannot but admire a standard dictionary that defines middle-aged as “between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner” and says that the verb perpetrate means “to execute or commit (esp.

  • 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."


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