Example sentences for: reckoning

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

  • Better to take the bitter medicine now--to let unemployment rise, to force companies to purge themselves of redundant capacity--than to postpone the day of reckoning.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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


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