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Example sentences for "recall"

Lexicographically close words:
rebutting; recal; recalcitrant; recalcitrants; recalculated; recalled; recalling; recalls; recals; recant
  1. But when he attempted to recall more intimate phrases it revived his sense of sin.

  2. He could not bear to recall in detail the incidents of his life.

  3. Vainly she attempted to recall Winnie in the coffin, horrible and gone forever.

  4. Regret's not the right emotion to recall that kind of talk.

  5. George Holland, also departed, was for a brief period at the Chambers Street Theatre, and we recall our enjoyment of his broad fun and facial extravagance.

  6. Now that we think of it, it seems to us, as we recall Johnston, that nature had peculiarly fitted him for the delineation of many of Dickens's characters.

  7. Some few octogenarians may survive who can recall Burton's performances of over forty years ago; but they must be few indeed; and their recollections cannot be otherwise than dim and uncertain.

  8. And it may be twice--nay, thrice twenty before the actor shall arise who will compel us to recall the triumphs of Burton for the sake of comparison.

  9. How many who are living now will laugh as they recall the appearance of Burton in that close-fitting garment, covered with hieroglyphics!

  10. The duel scene and the scene in the garden, when Malvolio reads the letter, were full of the comedian's diverting power; and we can recall no single instance of humorous execution which more perfectly fulfilled all conditions.

  11. And now let us in our remaining space recall our memories of the Shakespearian parts in which we saw the great actor.

  12. Let any one who thinks otherwise endeavor to recall the names of those who have been or are famous in that special line, and he will be surprised to find how few he can enumerate.

  13. At this speech the enthusiasm of the audience knew no bounds; and indeed, with the exception of Mary Taylor's farewell benefit, we can recall no theatrical occasion where more genuine feeling was manifested.

  14. Mackenzie, Hincks, Howe, Brown, and Macdougall, will recall remarkable epochs in our history.

  15. Many of my readers will recall those days, for I am writing of times within the memory of many Upper Canadians.

  16. These three books, however, are written with spirit, and recall the masterpieces of fiction.

  17. Of Voltaire's anti-clericism little need be said, except to recall our debt to his victory over ecclesiasticism and superstition.

  18. Who would not recall these to spiritual understanding if he could, or confess that they should be recalled by him who is able?

  19. For all the flesh which hunger has consumed finds its way into the air by evaporation, whence, as we have said, God Almighty can recall it.

  20. I think I have, though I can't recall the place or occasion.

  21. So had I, but I couldn't recall where and when it was.

  22. To Jo Minturn there came a faint impression that he had met him at some time, though he could not recall where or when it was.

  23. The precautionary action of the redmen served to recall Captain Bagley to his own situation, and he raised his gaze from the prostrate figure, and looked affrightedly around him.

  24. You may recall what was said a few nights ago.

  25. I cannot, just now, recall any one who knows you, Colonel, who does not feel the same way about you.

  26. II One of the earliest memories Luke could recall was the big blurred impression of Nat's face bending over his crib of an evening.

  27. As I recall her, she must have been a fine woman.

  28. You will also recall the ball game the day you didn't go home from school, and how you went in swimming, and about that fight with Bill, and ever so many other things which you thought that you had forgotten.

  29. A sun-ray is energy; you will recall that Archimedes concentrated it through immense burning-glasses which set fire to Roman ships.

  30. Therefore I unto Tarshish took my flight before: For that thou art a gracious God I know, Of tender mercy, and to anger slow, Of great compassion, and dost oft recall The evil thou dost threat mankind withal.

  31. I did not send them so unadvisedly to recall it again by another consideration.

  32. But yet again you recall yourself, and distinguish one purpose from the rest, as a grand one (p.

  33. Yet, before be got up, the sun went down upon Christian; and this made him again recall the vanity of his sleeping to his remembrance; and thus he again began to condole with himself.

  34. As they had quite a poor idea of the morality of that same corporation and could recall cases of petty revenge, their conjecture was believed to have more probability and justification.

  35. All the tardy vindications of justice, all the revenge in the world, will not restore a single hair of my mother's head, or recall a smile to my brother's lips.

  36. Ah, you do ill to recall this to me, since it is wantonly reopening a wound!

  37. At night, before going to sleep, I recall my former democratic fancies.

  38. Once again, I recall the red deer's little one, mutilated on its carpet of fresh crimson, and the emotion which I had not on that bygone day rises into my throat.

  39. I had begun to note the names of places we were going to, but I lost myself in the black swarm of words when I tried to recall them.

  40. I recall the silhouette of Adjutant Marcassin, and him whom I quoted a moment ago--the sincere hero, barren and dogmatic, with his furious faith.

  41. There is a tenuity of thought in what he has written, but his verses are usually easy, and I like them because they recall my schoolboy days, when I thought him a Horace, and his Delia a goddess.

  42. The impression left by his manners was, even at that early period, calculated to be deep, and I cannot recall any other instance in which the man and the boy continued to resemble each other so much and so long.

  43. The other circumstances I recollect of my residence in Bath are but trifling, yet I never recall them without a feeling of pleasure.

  44. I venture to recall here to the reader's memory the opening of the twelfth chapter of Peveril of the Peak, written twenty-six years after the date of this youthful disappointment.

  45. Do you recall telling me the other day, with tears in your eyes, that you were slowly dying for something new and interesting to do?

  46. Well, I'm a generous and forbearing man, Larry, and I recall that you havn't had much fun here.

  47. A few minutes sufficed to recall the sculptor to his senses.

  48. We shall often recall the sunny days and peace-filled nights, the glory of the sunsets and the enticement of the beautiful lake.

  49. We recall a gentleman who, on his initial experience in trout fishing, was discovered sitting on a log by the stream, examining a strange-looking fish which furnished the solitary evidence of his piscatorial skill.

  50. The difficulty seemed to increase, and at last I began to recall the story in the `Arabian Nights' about the man choking himself to death with a bone, and the trouble his host had to dispose of the body.

  51. The glass almost dropped from his hand to the table, and he clasped his brow, to stand staring before him fighting to recall his thoughts.

  52. Yes," said Brettison, "I recall all that.

  53. The fresh, clear-cut thought shot out boldly from the writer's brain conveys a new idea; you recall the touch of humour resembling a patch of warm sunshine twinkling on the landscape, and your lips curve into a smile.

  54. Recall the simple and unpretentious meal of which our Blessed Lord partook with His disciples on the eve of His betrayal and death.

  55. They are not; and if they ever recall scenes, or suggest situations that seem familiar, that is merely an accident.

  56. I recall the mysterious impenetrable solitude of the jungle, a solitude alive, if one is equipped with knowledge, with a ceaseless warfare of winged and crawling hosts.

  57. I can recall but one work of a contemporary mentioned favorably in the biography; perhaps there are two.

  58. And I am forced to recall some of the things--such as bookkeeping in a jam factory and stoking on a tramp steamer.

  59. It requires an effort of thought to recall that in their homely presence we are endangered.

  60. And I recall a conversation with Sir Henry Irving one night when he said to me, "Fetch me a glass of water, will you?

  61. As in the heat of summer it is difficult to recall the sensation of winter's bitter cold, so the fruitless and barren periods of a man's life are sometimes quite obliterated from his memory.

  62. Could his father at the last hour, and after so many thronged years, and before his brethren, recall the old sin?

  63. The Provincial Parliament, with regained authority, had exacted the recall of the Intendants appointed by the Court.

  64. Neither have much poetic merit, but they recall an interesting incident.

  65. Whether Pascal and she had loved each other or not, this sacred Home bound their best thoughts together, and serves to recall their highest aspirations.

  66. Greene assumed the command early in October, 1780, but the failure of Gates in the southern field caused his recall in August, and by common consent Greene was considered the best man fit to retrieve the fortunes of the southern army.

  67. As I recall these days of my boyhood I find the recollections of our life at Point Pleasant much more distinct than those we spent in Philadelphia.

  68. Indeed during the last twenty-five years of his life I do not recall two consecutive days when Richard did not devote a number of hours to literary work.

  69. Young as I was in those days I can readily recall one of those lunch-parties when the contrast between Booth and Dion Boucicault struck my youthful mind most forcibly.

  70. But as I recall these outings they were not very joyous occasions, as Richard was extremely unhappy over his failures at school and greatly depressed about the prospects for the future.

  71. It must not recall any previous work, must not even accidentally resemble anything else, and yet must, in one way or other, be associated with something already familiar, must follow a path already struck out.

  72. But the movement went astray, by making the insane attempt to recall the advanced guard for the sake of the laggards; they would hardly have minded sabring the foremost for the sake of keeping the army together.

  73. Only the sun and the brilliant shimmer of the stars at night recall the south.

  74. Corinne, too, like her creator, hopes that her growing fame will bring about her recall to her native land, and reinstatement in her rights.

  75. He does not truly live except when he is entirely alone, in mist-veiled forests which recall the inevitable Ossian, or at night by the silent shores of a Swiss lake.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recall" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abjure; abolish; abolition; abrogate; abrogation; annul; annulment; bring; call; cancel; cancellation; cite; conjure; convene; countermand; demand; deny; dismantle; evoke; finger; forswear; indent; initiative; invalidate; invalidation; invoke; know; lift; mandate; memoir; memory; mind; muster; nag; nudge; nullification; nullify; override; overrule; page; palinode; place; plebiscite; prompt; rake; recall; recant; recantation; recapture; recognize; recollect; recollection; reconsideration; reestablish; referendum; reflect; reflection; reinstate; remember; remembrance; remind; reminiscence; renew; repeal; requisition; rescind; restore; retain; retrace; retract; retraction; retrospect; retrospection; reversal; reverse; review; revive; revocation; revoke; rote; serve; study; subpoena; suggest; summon; summons; suspend; suspension; think; unsay; vacate; vacation; void; waive; waiver; withdraw; withdrawal


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    recall something; recall whether