Example sentences for: recounts

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

  • Wartime Lies, which is largely autobiographical, recounts the adventures of Maciek, a Jewish boy who, with his aunt Tania, is fleeing the Nazis in Poland.

  • It recounts the misdeeds of "Phantomd," a teen-age "cracker" who infiltrated computers at nuclear-weapons labs, military bases, banks, dams, and major corporations before he was caught.

  • As Shelden recounts in his biography, Koestler had fixed Paget up with Orwell after his wife suddenly died in 1945.

  • Punishment of children, the article recounts, "should be unpleasant, memorable, and inflicted at a time that is convenient for the parent."

  • The magazine recounts Fidel Castro's epistolary romance with a Havana socialite: Imprisoned after his failed 1953 coup, he sent her fervent letters that mixed political invective with sweet nothings ("there is a type of honey that never satiates").


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