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"Reckoning" in a Sentence (16 examples)
You're off in your reckoning.
I guess the time of reckoning has arrived at last.
After dinner comes the reckoning.
In your reckoning, what accounts for these phenomena?
The young Queen was over twenty years old, not reckoning the hundred years she had been asleep.
Winds roll the waters, and the great seas rise. / Dispersed we welter on the gulfs. Damp night / has snatched with rain the heaven from our eyes, / and storm-mists in a mantle wrapt the light. / Flash after flash, and for a moment bright, / quick lightnings rend the welkin. Driven astray / we wander, robbed of reckoning, reft of sight. / No difference now between the night and day / e'en Palinurus sees, nor recollects the way.
The day of reckoning is upon us. For simple minds have simple thoughts.
Muslims believe in the day of reckoning.
Until he sees some sort of reckoning, the celebrity will just keep doing the awful things that he's doing.
My reckoning was correct.
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By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
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My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.
The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.
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