Example sentences for: recounting

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

  • I was especially struck by the many stories recounting the development of a particular patient's illness, the patient's efforts to manage it, and the resulting interactions with health professionals.

  • The NYT runs a story on Jews and blacks as well as a William Safire column recounting the time he, a young press agent, organized a press conference for the then obscure King.

  • O'Brian's is a roman fleuve recounting the 1790-1815 continuing adventures of his ship captain hero, Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy, and of Aubrey's best friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon, a naturalist and spy for the British.

  • Several critics carp that Mike Myers' horny '60s swinger is not as novel the second time around: "Most of the silliness has become pretty strenuous and some of the sweetness has settled into desperation" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). But despite their protestations, reviewers can't help recounting all their favorite jokes from the film, a habit that effectively dilutes their complaints.

  • The description of work inside a frozen foods warehouse, where wheezing lugs destroy their health hefting 80 pound ice bricks of fish sticks, is worthy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle . The recounting of a brutal "workout" session, in which bankers try to break a defaulting debtor down psychologically, is brilliantly drawn, as are the scenes set in a dehumanized Oakland prison.


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