Explore Recollected through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Recollected in a sentence
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Recollected meaning
simple past and past participle of recollect
Using Recollected
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of recollect
- In the example corpus, recollected often appears in combinations such as: he recollected, recollected that, recollected the.
Context around Recollected
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 3 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Recollected
- In this selection, "recollected" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, coats, defender and marolyn stand out and add context to how "recollected" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ben 49 recollected how extraordinary and chief minister recollected his association. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "recollected" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with recollected
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He could hardly walk and looked terrible,” Marolyn recollected. (9 words)
He recollected, “After 6 pm you needed a kerosene lamp. (10 words)
While another recollected the life-altering advice he received from Lee. (11 words)
The Northern Echo also suggested this behaviour and the women’s drinking “may have been relevant to the way they handled, consumed and reacted to the food, as well as how they recollected the events of the night”. (38 words)
While paying his tribute, the Hon’ble Chief Minister recollected his association with Late Tushi Pradhan, who he said was a committed politician and social worker who brought about visible change in the Sikkimese society. (35 words)
To these might be added "secondary elaboration"—the outcome of the dreamer's natural tendency to make some sort of "sense" or "story" out of the various elements of the manifest content as recollected. (34 words)
Example sentences (17)
He recollected, “After 6 pm you needed a kerosene lamp.
I had to quit my job as I was unable to perform even basic tasks like writing, brushing my teeth, and combing my hair,” she recollected.
Ben, 49, recollected how ‘extraordinary’ Derek’s funeral was, saying that it was a ‘real celebration’ and that the entire family did him ‘proud’.
We hardly saw anybody at all but if we did occasionally encounter a small village, it would have maybe six or seven huts and everyone would be inside them all day,’ he recollected.
After Trump’s election, Woodward wrote, the couple attended a dinner at the White House, where Marsha Coats recollected an interaction with Pence.
At that moment I recollected the axiom that “fortune favors the bold” and figured that maybe intuitively Mr. or Ms. Squirrel might have known that, and acted accordingly.
He recollected that in the clean-up of the financial sector, a lot of people lost their investment and were left with nothing with no hope for what was going to happen next.
He recollected that through government’s resound fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, the lives of the general citizenry and foreign investment are guaranteed.
The former defender recollected that the standard in last year’s tournament was high and believes this is due to a continued effort by the local governing body to educate its coaches.
Varon said as he held the man, he recollected all the other patients that he’d had to similarly console.
While another recollected the life-altering advice he received from Lee.
He could hardly walk and looked terrible,” Marolyn recollected.
While paying his tribute, the Hon’ble Chief Minister recollected his association with Late Tushi Pradhan, who he said was a committed politician and social worker who brought about visible change in the Sikkimese society.
The Northern Echo also suggested this behaviour and the women’s drinking “may have been relevant to the way they handled, consumed and reacted to the food, as well as how they recollected the events of the night”.
It was then recollected that underneath the horse-hair mattress on which the President lay was another mattress composed of steel wires.
Much of Updike's poetical output was recollected in Knopf's Collected Poems (1993).
To these might be added "secondary elaboration"—the outcome of the dreamer's natural tendency to make some sort of "sense" or "story" out of the various elements of the manifest content as recollected.
Common combinations with recollected
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- he recollected 5×
- recollected that 4×
- recollected the 3×