Example sentences for: reckoning

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

  • necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, (the witness of times, the light and the life of truth) and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.”

  • 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).

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

  • It "postpones [the] day of reckoning."

  • Let them collect interest until the day of reckoning when that political hero finally arrives to raise taxes and retire the debt.


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