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Example sentences for "recognise"

Lexicographically close words:
recluses; recognisable; recognisably; recognisance; recognisances; recognised; recognises; recognising; recognition; recognitions
  1. Here the speaker, whom I could now recognise as no other than Richard de Chevron, drew from under his cloak something carefully wrapt up in tissue paper.

  2. The night was very dark and I could recognise no faces.

  3. Then taking off my spectacles and wig, I said, "Molly, do you not recognise these eyes and these locks, in spite of the rest of my disguise?

  4. Nevertheless, who is there in the township that does not recognise the Henker's red legs?

  5. If the writer of the above was correct in the identity of the dying pugilist with his cultured passenger, his parents or friends never came forward to recognise him.

  6. We recognise now that all calculations were far below the true figure.

  7. Therefore quoth every one of those present to the woman, "Allah upon thee, leave this sinful obstinacy and recognise the right of this matter, lest haply thy husband and the father of thy children die.

  8. If this landlord, who in the past had seen him so often and so closely, did not recognise him, surely no one else would.

  9. I have a feeling that Rosalie would recognise her as plainly as though the word Kathleen were stitched on her breast.

  10. Another peculiarity of the people is that they do not recognise a difference of goods.

  11. They seemed to recognise Warrington, for no sooner had the lookout at the door peered through a little grating and seen him than the light woodwork affair was opened.

  12. I thought I saw someone across the street who looked like you as we came along, but you didn't recognise us and in a moment you were gone.

  13. Even in his half-drowsy state of pain Warrington appeared to recognise Garrick and assume that he had come in response to his own summons.

  14. Did you recognise the voice over the vocaphone?

  15. What is essential is to recognise the presence of the two 'aspects' or 'stages,' and to see that both are requisite to sublimity.

  16. Plainly he too had to recognise that power.

  17. Indeed, it can hardly be said to recognise the wider one at all.

  18. I say he is therefore their enemy; but I do him wrong; to say that he is their enemy implies that he regards them as serious and recognises their power, when in truth he refuses to recognise them at all.

  19. It was necessary that the subject should be first opened by some irresponsible party, whom more powerful parties might, as by accident, recognise and patronise, and on whose weakness they might build something stronger.

  20. Much of the criticism that has been directed against Mr. John Burns misses the mark, because it does not recognise that the motive power at work all the time in his career is the triumph of his class.

  21. Probably she would not have hesitated to say that worse than either would be that he should recognise her only to slight her, and make a jest, maybe, of the memories that were his and hers alike.

  22. It shows itself in the readiness with which I recognise the Finger of Providence.

  23. Look upon her, and recognise in that shrunken face the lips you kissed, the cheeks you pressed to yours, the eye that laughed and gave back love or mockery!

  24. He affected to recognise his indebtedness, but only grudgingly.

  25. If you have, you will recognise this description.

  26. I recognise the mysterious influence which he has ever exercised over your existence.

  27. She had not quitted Venetia many paces, when she broke the seal and read these lines: 'Tremble not, Annabel, when you recognise this handwriting.

  28. Through the mist of a strange pronunciation he could recognise only here and there afamiliar word.

  29. Let us rather profit as we may, even from this spectacle, and recognise the monarch in his masquerade.

  30. Willingly do I recognise their brotherhood.

  31. It is eternal; and I, who recognise it, I likewise am eternal!

  32. Yet I recognise them as day-dreams only; as shadows, not substantial things.

  33. And she thought it was contained in this letter that she should recognise the King among all the rest.

  34. In him we recognise the father of the freedom of the Gallican Church.

  35. Nearly every man, woman and child in this country who can read would know it and would recognise it at a glance.

  36. This is an intention which I have often manifested; but since, in the actual state of things, an assurance to this effect would seem to recognise a right to impose this condition upon me, I think it not proper to satisfy such a demand.

  37. The British also refused to recognise as neutral the trade between France and her West India colonies, carried on in American bottoms, which the pressure of war had created.

  38. Stackanoff stared at them spitefully when they were marched in front of him, but for the moment did not recognise them.

  39. The night is too dark for them to recognise us except when close at hand.

  40. As I came along I saw Corder lounging about, and of course I took no notice--it would not do for us people from the Yard to recognise each other too readily in the street.

  41. I would thus have enabled you to recognise a very small object in a wide landscape in the quickest possible time.

  42. Was the corner in which I sat darker than I thought, or had he been so full of his own affairs that he failed to recognise me?

  43. You recognise it as paper you have seen before?

  44. I am glad you recognise this possibility.

  45. Young John recognised, and yet did not recognise it.

  46. Moreover, he had turned to recognise a living being .

  47. I recognise you by--by the slight scar on your face.

  48. You do recognise that you've been going wrong, what?

  49. Depend upon it, there's a Providence that looks after these things; and I say we're not doing our duty unless we recognise it, and show that we have some sense of gratitude.

  50. I recognise this lady's existence for the last time.

  51. I think that if that is done, and you write and tell him so, he will recognise that it was that feeling that directed him to write it.

  52. It would be ungrateful not to recognise how plainly things had been "ordered.

  53. Joan was too troubled to recognise this speech as a prelude to complete capitulation.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recognise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.