(v.) To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
(2) As the party's internal electoral commission counted and recounted the votes during the day, appeals for calm were drowned out by waves of accusation and counter-accusation.
(3) Donald Trump has continued his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s support for election recounts in three states, claiming he won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.
(4) Some problems of document delivery (and their solution) are recounted.
(5) They did a recount,” she said, alluding to a campaign funded by the Green party .
(6) The cameramen did not follow the couple into the house, but in the episode featuring the evening, the Salahis recount the dinner and meeting Obama.
(7) Describing her as a cheerleader who excelled in her schoolwork, the man recounted how her life was derailed by substance abuse.
(8) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
(9) The history of smallpox is recounted through the eyes of those who bore witness to its terrors.
(10) 1.18pm BST Pistorius also recounts having a gun fired at his car as he drove, and on another occasion being followed by a car as he headed home.
(11) Even Eltham-born Bob Hope, the quintessential wise-cracking American star , used to recount that he had made his way over to the US by boat at five years of age because, “I felt I wasn’t getting anywhere in England.” • This article was amended on 7 July 2015 to update the headline.
(12) I can’t use the gyro at night so we’ll probably resort to using these drones.” Later, Cottar sits at a wooden table where a member of the Kenya Wildlife Service recounts the previous evening’s close call.
(13) She recounts her prolonged campaign to get respite care (which no one had told her she was entitled to), and later to get funding to send her son to a residential school.
(14) Styles of reminiscence used in life stories, rather than being outcomes of life review undertaken in old age, may be the characteristic ways in which individuals at particular levels of ego development, think about, relate to, and recount the stories of their lives.
(15) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
(16) Cleary recounted last week how he and his colleagues instead held their discussions amid the Rodins and Moores in the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden and how he had taken all of the mobile phones from the group and placed them in a bag well away from the discussions.
(17) Slipstream recounts how, on one writing holiday, they swapped typewriters and wrote a few pages of each other's novels.
(18) The paper concludes by examining the project against some success criteria and recounting some of the practical difficulties of data collection encountered so far.
(19) This paper recounts our experience on the use of a modified Lytic-cocktail regime in the management of eclampsia at the University Obstetric Unit, General Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
(20) Recounting how the rebels, known formally as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (LTTE) once controlled a wide swathe of the north and much of the east, Rajapaksa said that for the first time in 30 years, the country was unified under its elected government.
Trounce
Definition:
(v. t.) To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
Example Sentences:
(1) By breaking ICM’s data into four different categories of seat, Curtice reveals Labour’s decline is sharpest in those supposedly heartland seats where it previously trounced the SNP by more than 25 points.
(2) True, he has trounced them so thoroughly that any mutterings of future challenges are an empty blast of sour breath.
(3) The NFC's top-ranked Seahawks trounced the Saints in Seattle just a few weeks ago.
(4) They need not have worried: Lucas trounced the Labour hopeful, Purna Sen, eventually winning almost 42% of the vote.
(5) In reaction to Roma’s 5-1 trouncing of CSKA, Hart said: “Roma won 5-1?
(6) She trounced her Republican rivals on the promise that as a “mother, soldier, conservative” she would fight abortion right and strive to tame big government, putting the Affordable Care Act, the EPA, the Clean Water Act, minimum wage and the department of education, among other things, in her sights.
(7) Even at home, commercial rivals often trounce state offerings and there is widespread cynicism about news content.
(8) Defeating the holders, Manchester City, after that 6-1 trouncing by them in the league at Old Trafford is to be relished.
(9) And so Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate – who failed to become leader of the Socialists, was trounced in her attempt to become the party's 2012 presidential candidate and failed to gain a seat in parliament at the last election – emerged last week from almost a year of seclusion to publicise her new book (and let it be known she is looking for a government job).
(10) City’s trouncing of Villa aside, their league form since announcing Guardiola’s ETA and Manuel Pellegrini exit is similarly awful: one win, three defeats.
(11) Remember: in 2005, Labour under the supposedly wizard-like Tony Blair managed to get only 35% of the vote, and at the last election, the Tories could not even trounce Gordon Brown.
(12) guide found that budget gins – some selling at less than a tenner a bottle – trounced their more expensive and established rivals in a consumer taste test.
(13) The certainty of a large Conservative majority and knowing that the remainers have been trounced, will see Ukip voters coming home.
(14) Barcelona, after years of dishing out this kind of trouncing, were now being subjected to Bavarian "olés".
(15) Even to casual observers the message was clear: had the Know Nothings and Republicans joined forces, they would have trounced Buchanan.
(16) Yet the previously obscure one-term state senator trounced her fancied Democratic rival, Bruce Braley, in what was supposed to be a purple state.
(17) Maradona's Argentina are also out after Germany trounced the South Americans 4-0 yesterday afternoon.
(18) Hawthorn trounce Adelaide by 74 points to reach AFL preliminary final Read more Brad Scott’s team were harder at the contest and powered by Jack Ziebell, Shaun Higgins and Ben Cunnington.
(19) This trouncing of Bournemouth was the first of seven games the lethal marksman may miss for Manchester City.
(20) The Louis van Gaal show is up and running and in the brightest of lights after a 7-0 trouncing of Los Angeles Galaxy in front of an 86,432 crowd at the Rose Bowl.