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Example sentences for "lect"
Lexicographically close words:
lecherie
;
lecherous
;
lechery
;
lecho
;
lecithin
;
lected
;
lectern
;
lecteur
;
lectio
;
lection
When I first rec'lect her much she was as straight as an arrow, and she used to go to Boston visiting and come
home with
the top
of
the fashion.
That was a
good while
ago; and do you rec'lect how she used
to
play the piano?
De Lord help dem to 'lect dem who
helps
to 'lect demselves.
De ’lect
is
more’n you or I knows, honey!
I rec'lect
that
v'yage o' mine in that schooner well, too, by the same token!
Well, I don't
just
rec'lect that you spoke favorable on that p'int.
Yes, I rec'lect I did ask you
something
like that.
Eadie, you rec'lect
that time
when you fust spoke to me about
the
minister staying in my house you said I'd be in the way of the Lord if I'd do it.
But that's what the preacher
said
about this pilot, whose last name I rec'lect was Pontyhouse.
Don't you rec'lect
how
we'd play together?
Find
my
little gal, Pippin, my Mary: you rec'lect her?
But say, lady, you rec'lect
what
I told you that day?
I well rec'lect de hounds run through our place one night, chasin' de slave what kilt his
wife
by runnin' de harness needle through her heart.
I kin sho' rec'lect when dose sojers come and
de
road was full goin' day and night.
I 'lect how Marse say, 'Don't go
into
de field dirty Monday mornin'.
You can c'lect from
them
later," retorted Peace.
You-alls better
get
a hustle on right now an' 'lect a jedge.
This yere
grows
from a business transaction; an' the effort tharfrom to improve on present conditions, institoot a reign of law, an'
lect
a jedge.
Bar Cimmaron, who lapses into silence after Old Monroe gives him notice, the entire camp lines up fav'rable
on
the idee to 'lect a jedge.
I shorely thinks we better rectify them
omissions
an' 'lect a jedge at once.
De
fust thing
dey
done
was 'lect a general to lead off de singin' and keep it goin' so de faster dey sung, de faster dey shucked de corn.
De
fust thing
dey done atter dey got together
was
to 'lect a general; he led de singin', and de faster he sung de faster de shucks flew.
De fust
thing
dey done at cornshuckin's was to 'lect a gen'ral.
Jest rec'lect then
that
the Garden is mine.
Rec'lect that it's always watch an' watch
with
us.
You rec'lect we talked that over
once
before.
I rec'lect a benefit they
had
for his widow.
Can't rec'lect whether
the
baby lived or not.
You rec'lect
that
there ain't a roof on
that side
o' the house.
I rec'lect Calliope puttin' back that light thing
from
her head like it smothered her.
His friends
Lect
and Giovanni Diodati wished,
rather than
hoped, to get him
back
to Geneva.
The other man, McLemore, he
went
around the camp and came up on the other side.
I cooked all round town for 'bout
fifty
years.
I fans
dem
till I drops asleep, and dat call for de whippin'.
I wasn't big enough to tote water to the field when war started, but I driv up the cows and calves and
helped
tend massa's chillen.
I 'lect what she say as
if
I jes' hear her say it.
I rec'lect the time the
cullud
folks registered here after the war.
I rec'lect readin', when I was a b'y, of the
wreck
of a big East Indyman here bound fur Bombay.
You rec'lect what I
told
you 'bout wages, hey?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
lecture tour
;
lectures delivered