How to Use reckon in a Sentence

reckon

verb

• Do you reckon you'll be able to go to the grocery store after work?
• I reckon that we'll have to leave early.
• Losses were reckoned to be over a million dollars.
• They reckoned that they would reach their destination by noon.
• We'll have to leave early, I reckon.
• The calendar was just one of the systems the Maya used to reckon time.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• All that said, though, that is a lot of TV for any one creator to reckon with.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 30 Nov. 2022
• For now, the HCS may have to reckon with a diminished place in the landscape.
  — Ethan Davison, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• All that said, there’s still the behemoth of Pride to reckon with.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 June 2022
• And so, for now at least, we’re left to reckon with Carlson’s time at Fox News.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• The name change came as the U.S. reckoned with its history of racial injustice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
• But Mass General Brigham is still the force to be reckoned with.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• The near miss, coupled with my injury, forced me to reckon with risk.
  — Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2024
• Braun says it’s time to reckon with these thorny questions.
  — Grace Browne, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
• With the past, present and future to reckon with, the series shoots off in a lot of directions.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• That's heady stuff, but exactly the kind of idea young people reckon with all the time.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 23 July 2022
• Maybe next year, maybe in five years, or maybe never, Lee reckons.
  — Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
• But there seemed a lava flow inside him that would not be easy to reckon with.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
• Yet both fans and haters have had to reckon with the fact that although the best Swift albums have evolved her sound, this one takes a U-turn.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022
• Books In a new memoir, the author reckons with the attack that nearly took his life.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2024
• That has forced investors to reckon with the end of a decadeslong era of low interest rates.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2022
• And Eleven goes off on her own to reckon with what happened to her while in Dr. Brenner’s custody.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2022
• The Batman director Matt Reeves reckons that this moment shaped the adult Oz, and was very much a choice.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• Any art about right now has to reckon with the inane malaise of two years spent remembering to pack your kids’ school masks.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• In his courtship of her, Frederick must reckon with the trauma of his childhood.
  — Valerie Wu, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
• And now, his own campaign has finally been forced to reckon with it.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• But, for the first time, the university is publicly reckoning with the damage it’s caused to the Shoe Lane area.
  — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 23 Apr. 2024
• In the somber days after the fire, the collective agony of locals reckoning with their loss could be felt across the island.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2023
• Lee Sang-won closed his cafe near the accident site early, at around 2 p.m., struggling to reckon with the tragedy.
  — Jiyoung Sohn, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
• Unlike her wryly astute essays, the playwright scarcely reckons with the thorny nuances of mourning, and instead settles for a rather pat depiction of grief.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024