Example sentences for: reckoning

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

  • Many wars end in a reckoning rather than in forgiveness and forgetting.

  • 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).

  • An ell , Anglo-Saxon eln , was a rough reckoning, being the distance from the crook of the arm to the end of the longest finger, the elbow being where the bow or bend occurred.

  • In fact, by my reckoning, the movie business handily fits 11 of Kelly's 12 rules.

  • By my reckoning, Monica's road to public ridicule was paved by four mistakes--and on each fateful occasion she was encouraged by a much older co-conspirator.


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