How To Use Recounting In A Sentence
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He was again recounting the incredible story of his life.
The Sun
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But that would be no different from somebody disinterring a 20-year-old volume of the Commonwealth Law Reports and recounting what happened in some case.
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Instead of recounting endless dogfights or mission recaps, Brulle shows the attitudes and viewpoints of the men who were primarily engaged in tactical air support.
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I would answer it by recounting the following legend.
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This is a triumph of his, not a desperate, tragic failure," Anita Thompson said by phone, recounting that she was sitting in her husband's chair he called his catbird seat in the Rockies.
Don't romanticize Thompson's suicide.
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It featured a series of comedy skits and a half-dozen songs, all loosely recounting the colonial experience.
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While the story might be tragic, his recounting of it is both witty and perceptive.
Times, Sunday Times
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People fall in love all the time, but few professional athletes are so explicit in recounting the moment they met their soulmate 15 years earlier.
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I find that just recounting my putts on most holes generally sends me to sleep.
The Sun
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In reality, the examiners help the proctors in all the counting and recounting, both to save time and because it's also their necks on the line if anything goes missing.
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First, as mentioned earlier, the portions of the Lexicon that encapsulate plot elements or sketch plotlines bear no comparison with the guidebook in Twin Peaks, whose plot summaries giving "elaborate recounting of plot details" were found to constitute an "abridgement" of the original work.
Unalog
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Maybe one or both of them is a cyborg recounting the meandering life of some long-dead syphilitic galley slave.
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As they talked together, I was distressed to hear them recounting episodes of racial strife that they had seen.
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“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen,” he says, recounting his bouts with writer's block, depression, dry flaky skin and existential torment.
With Arthur Rimbaud at the Chamber of Commerce Lunch
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I have even received three laudatory letters from black prisoners, all recounting how they subscribed to the party-faithful line in their youth but have rejected it since.
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He was recounting how he had ambushed a column of armoured vehicles, killing dozens of soldiers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The detailed recounting of the outrageous cultural and physical destruction of Aboriginal societies in the process of white settlement disturbs a good many Australians.
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Debbie's started recounting her adventures in dotcom land in her comic strip.
Boing Boing: March 18, 2001 - March 24, 2001 Archives
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I just had to keep recounting and reliving the experience.
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He wrote frequently: long, affectionate, amusing letters recounting the latest gossip from the set.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Trying to provide a synopsis of this film is like recounting your week.
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In their narrative structure, the individual recounting takes place of the grandly recounting.
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It is common in evangelical Protestant circles for converts to witness to their faith by recounting their experience of conversion.
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Earlier this year Matthew Hayden wrote of the great leg-spinner's nicotine dependency, recounting the tale of the Australian boot camp before the 2006-07 Ashes: All we were allowed to take was a backpack, a sleeping bag, a hutchie field shelter sheet, a couple of shirts, two pairs of socks, undies and joggers.
The Nursery End
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Dredged directly from his personal memories and imaginings, the stories are almost a wish fulfilment, the recounting of a dreamt-of childhood.
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Throughout the album, Dead Prez move from bitter reportage, recounting tales of poverty and desperation, to impassioned calls to action.
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His chapter on North Korea is especially devastating, recounting the State Department's persistent mistakes and even duplicities in hapless pursuit of a pledge from Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons program.
Mission Accomplished
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The author also went to great lengths recounting his tough-break with a landlady after renting a house.
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In recounting his teenage travails as a Boston schoolboy growing up with a "dollop" of Catholic guilt and a full spectrum of FM stations, Sheffield navigates Reaganomics, Boy George, and Rambo with wit, self-deprecation, and not an ounce of trepidation.
Kristi York Wooten: A Girl Talks to Rob Sheffield about Duran Duran (and His New Book)
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About the origin of the story, Kugel writes that it "looks like an etiological narrative, that is, the recounting of some incident from the distant past that serves to explain the way things are 'now,' at the time of the story's composition, when Sodom was a ghost town.
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And then came the really painful bit - recounting the tale once again, of how her own father violated her.
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Then when recounting the story later the word mech was used.
Yesterday's Pawn by W. T. Quick
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Then we have various counties in Florida being rushed through the recounting process.
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Her country's epochal events form the colorful backdrop for her breathless and episodic recounting of her own journey of self-transformation.
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He was again recounting the incredible story of his life.
The Sun
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Little José's grandfather was recounting the tale about how the rains came.
GYPSY MASALA
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After recounting the history of some of the Victorian and in particular Queenscliff regionalisms he is researching for the Australian National Dictionary, Bruce Moore explains how dictionary-makers keep abreast of usage.
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Great House" is told in spliced monologues, each recounting the misfortunes of these and other characters who struggle under a "crippling burden of memory.
A Desk and Its Stories
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He was again recounting the incredible story of his life.
The Sun
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Billy and I were together one morning writing lyrics, and the title sprung out of a very long story I was recounting about the Bangles 'tour of Graceland.
Shawn Amos: Eternal Flame: 10 Questions with Susanna Hoffs
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In addition to recounting events, Maupassant describes the beggar's thoughts and his feelings.
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The Speaker's job is to interview people who knew the deceased and to try and make that person live one last moment in the community by recounting aspects of that life with a brutal honesty.
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When Dr. Grigson went beyond simply reporting to the court on the issue of competence and testified for the prosecution at the penalty phase on the crucial issue of respondent’s future dangerousness, his role changes and became essentially like that of an agent of the State recounting unwarned statement made in a postarrest custodial setting.
Law In The Health and Human Services
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And now, dear reader, indulge me as I recycle some material I wrote twelve years ago, recounting the events of two years earlier.
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D.T. Suzuki used the word "enlightenment" to translate the Japanese term satori¸ and his recounting of the enlightenment stories from the Zen koan literature made quite a splash among intellectual elites at the time.
Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment'
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The artist chose the book's landscape format, which is reminiscent of old volumes recounting geographical explorations.
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The discomfort from having to stand so purposelessly on the street corner has them doubly animate in recounting tales and goss.
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On December 12th, the Federal Supreme Judicial Court made the judgment by the voting result of 5:4 to overturn the decision of continuing the manual recounting made by Florida Supreme Court.
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That's why dinner table conversations which find themselves recounting experiences of domestic repairs these days can begin to sound like the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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He survived and wrote a letter to the author recounting this incident.
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Another spends 10 minutes squatting by the table, recounting how his previous tables stiffed him when the computers overheated and meals didn't arrive on time.
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Chloe of the Midnight Storytellers will amuse the guests by recounting tales from myth and legend, as well as adaptations of literary short stories.
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I can account this socially debilitative disease to my early days in primary school where I was ridiculed for assuming that L, M, N, O, P was a word and ostracized for recounting stories told to me by my less PC relatives.
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Recounting the matter in present time-without being returned-the patient is using all the intervening years as buffers against the painful emotion.
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The discomfort from having to stand so purposelessly on the street corner has them doubly animate in recounting tales and goss.
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The author and actress has travelled all over the country recounting tales about knickers and written books on the history of frillies.
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In their recounting of experience encourage them to use the past continuous and the simple past.
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He worked up a good bit of patter with the audience and even managed to get a laugh when recounting a story that involved switching into a different language.
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Right glad would I be to visit you & your dear family & pass many pleasant moments in your domestic circle recounting olden times & descanting somewhat perhaps upon your future professional & my future hymenial prospects.
Augusta County: B. Estill to John McCue, February 13, 1860
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You could do so in flashback, or by recounting journalistic coverage of the fight as it ended, or by having characters narrate what happened, or whatever.
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A flurry of e-mails arrived back in America recounting his adventures and studies, but when he got back to the USA in 1999, he seemed changed.
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But perhaps this is what makes for such great literature -- the same energy experienced in rubbernecking at an auto wreck and recounting the horrors at a dinner party the following week; no need to work on the first response team, or in the O.R., because we, as readers and writers, like to keep our distance while pretending to understand.
When Reality Intrudes
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And I'm sure that part of the debriefing was a very, very detailed recounting of Lieutenant Osborn's recollections and as well as the others up front in the cockpit.
CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2001
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There has always been a certain relish in recounting the decay of flesh.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maybe that's why Swanson sits on his brother's porch with a hefty whiskey recounting a guttered down version of American history, trying to figure out how we got exactly here, neck deep in nihilism...
Heather Donahue: Sundance 2012: The Comedy
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While the story might be tragic, his recounting of it is both witty and perceptive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Publishers have rushed to print books recounting her life, lost from the national radar screen for more than 20 years.
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As the picture begins, it soon becomes clear that Lee is offering more than a mere recounting of generic forms.
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While the story might be tragic, his recounting of it is both witty and perceptive.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sometimes strains for literary effect - and his habit of recounting his numerous affairs and near-affairs is sophomoric.
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A private act of masturbation, even masturbation to the tellings of rape victims, would be less detrimental on the whole than what happened with the so-called sexpert putting such an atrocious statement dismissing the recountings of rape victims out there for the malestream media to circle jerk with.
Link Farm and Open Thread #7
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The recounting of heroic exemplars is more than just poetic entertainment; it is the warp and woof of the social fabric itself.
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Rather, the doctor dined out in London (and raised scads of money) by recounting how a charging lion shook him like a rat in its teeth - this because he'd stupidly approached the hiding beast after wounding it.
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A majority of American states either mandate or permit manual recounting when the differential between the machine vote totals for opposing candidates is within a certain margin.
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Jimmy Hamilton, a boyish man who celebrated his 80th birthday the previous day, is recounting to me a tale of bravery from the middle years of the last century and I'm rapt.
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Winnie, who spends that play buried up to her chest in earth, unable to move, is recounting the reaction of an imagined passerby: What's the idea? he says - stuck up to her diddies in the bleeding ground ...
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I just saw the walls rippling and just explosive sounds all around me," said Woolley, recounting the earthquake to MSNBC. "It all happened incredibly fast.
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Join two of Ireland's finest storytellers recounting humorous and melancholy tales of Celtic Ireland.
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The book is valuable for its recounting of the way in which Deng saved his reform program and slowly eased the older leadership generations out of power.
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In the evening, crowds attend Ramalila, dramatic performances recounting Rama's deeds.
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He was again recounting the incredible story of his life.
The Sun
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Recounting the Americans 'medal haul from the Games
Every U.S. medal from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
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his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable
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On the other hand, Summers and Swan seem to revel in recounting Sinatra's myriad encounters with stars, starlets and prostitutes, some of them surfacing for the first time in 50 years with their tales of joy and pain.
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As a matter of fact, he never heard about me or my speech, and afterward in the years of our association he "joshed" me about my opposition to him and would often make me very uncomfortable by recounting to his friends at the White House how even his own secretary had opposed him when his name was first under consideration for the United States senatorship in New Jersey.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
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When the princess finally departs, her hosts invariably take a masochistic pleasure in recounting her more outrageous demands to their friends and acquaintances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Newman understood church history as the recounting of all that is known about the progress of the kingdom of Christ on earth, a definition in virtual agreement with Schaff.
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JOANEL PIERRE, an 18-year-old Haitian shipwreck survivor, recounting the crash of a Haitian sailboat bound for Turks and Caicos, leaving 70 of the 200 passengers missing and 15 dead.
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I find that just recounting my putts on most holes generally sends me to sleep.
The Sun
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My older brother has been exuberantly recounting shared moments with celebrities (with varying degrees of truth) for some time now.
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Recounting the conversation rhetorically, he asks, You going to believe your microfiche twenty feet away from you, or me, city historian, or you going to believe someone who told you?
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He is flicking idly through the tabloid tittle-tattle, recounting a story of marital strife, laughing at the expense of others, and yet again avoiding work.
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Her country's epochal events form the colorful backdrop for her breathless and episodic recounting of her own journey of self-transformation.
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The two actors tell Alberta's life story by flashing back to when she was ten and then recounting different events of her life.
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Wherefore, being desirous to imitate precedent good example, which in worthy manner shee began to us all: I hold it very decent and necessary, that we should abstaine to morrow, and the day ensuing, from recounting any of our pleasant
The Decameron
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Unit members spent most of their time counting and recounting thousands of the large shells that were bundled together in palletized groups.
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Ideology was foreign, and impressive-sounding, and was to generate many books with chapters recounting the arguments of the various isms of which political debate is composed.
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They speak in an almost matter-of-fact way, recounting the catalogue of bad behaviour that has characterised the adolescent years for Alan.
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And for good measure, Anzellotti threw in a 17th-century work by Froberger recounting a fatal fall by an amateur lutist acquaintance.
Archive 2008-12-01
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A woodcut in the March 1491 Venetian edition of the Divine Comedy depicts the condottiere recounting his misfortune to Virgil and Dante.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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And one could go on and on recounting what flash tourist consultants have thought up as wizard, rabbits-out-of-hats schemes to bring in the visitors.
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Had Surrey never written a line of poetry, his life would still be worth recounting.
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It featured a series of comedy skits and a half-dozen songs, all loosely recounting the colonial experience.
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Recounting his early training on the bassoon, Baker starts to say he was "obs ...", before abruptly stopping himself.
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Each of the three counties involved will have its own bipartisan recounting committee.
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On December 12th, the Federal Supreme Judicial Court made the judgment by the voting result of 5:4 to overturn the decision of continuing the manual recounting made by Florida Supreme Court.
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There has always been a certain relish in recounting the decay of flesh.
Times, Sunday Times
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But her reporting is most powerful when recounting the isolated voices within the establishment who agitated for intervention.
