Example sentences for: reckoning

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

  • 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 .

  • To tell meant to count (as in telling the beads of a rosary ); a tale was a reckoning.

  • 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.”

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

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


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