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Example sentences for: reckoning

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

North American friends rightly regard as archaic my use of fortnight , this word being a survival of the old way of reckoning two weeks, by using fourteen-night.
The editorial concluded that "[f]or Nato, for European peace and for Britain, the true, high reckoning begins: it is called failure."
By my reckoning, Charlton Heston has played: a CIA director, two prophets (Moses, twice, and Brigham Young), two saints (Thomas More and John the Baptist), an admiral, two generals (as well as six captains and three majors), a cardinal (Richelieu), two kings (Macbeth and Henry VIII), and three presidents of the United States (Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin Roosevelt's voice).
But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .
It "postpones [the] day of reckoning."