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Meanings of reminiscing in English
Act of recollecting past experiences or events, e.g. by sharing stories with others.
Synonyms
Examples for "recollection"
Examples for "recollection"
1
He laughed over the recollection of the conversation in the street car.
2
In half sleep it is different; then we do retain some recollection.
3
The monk rose to go; the Prior seemed to wake to recollection.
4
This name Lacheneur awakened no recollection in the mind of the duke.
5
No recollection gave her boy save of the hours in the hunting-field.
1
This attitude determines the point of view in his notes and reminiscences.
2
Roland, sunk in a deep chair, seemed lost in reminiscences once more.
3
Do we need a book of reminiscences written by nearly 70 journalists?
4
He was full of reminiscences of the German occupation of the place.
5
Austin listened to her reminiscences and turned the talk to the drive.
1
The reminiscence stung me to the quick; I could endure no more.
2
In both cases the root Ad is probably a reminiscence of Ad-lantis.
3
He had been spared the slow decay of faculties in armchair reminiscence.
4
This particular reminiscence did not have the pastel nostalgia of the others.
5
Shiráz is the pleasantest reminiscence I retain of the ride through Persia.
Usage of reminiscing in English
1
Not that any such idle reminiscing is of interest to either side.
2
It makes sense that you'd want to do a bit of reminiscing-
3
Mrs. Rexford and Mrs. Izumi were reminiscing about friends of their youth.
4
Third way is Old Home Week, reminiscing about happy childhood, etc.
5
The woman cannot refrain from reminiscing about the days of persecution in Germany.
6
One successful businesswoman was reminiscing to the Margin yesterday about how she started.
7
The future has been postponed, so I find myself reminiscing more than ever.
8
Lions coach Johan Ackerman says there is little point reminiscing about the past.
9
Soon Mutya and Keisha are reminiscing about how this all started.
10
We then see Mugabe reminiscing about his fond memories of history's greatest monsters.
11
Charles finds himself reminiscing on memories of someone from the past.
12
Last weekend I was reminiscing with my bestie Juju over pictures from college.
13
I didn't want to get into a whole lot of reminiscing.
14
They were reminiscing about the children's radio programs of the nineteen-thirties.
15
The two are into high-volume reminiscing about other neighbors, and kids growing up.
16
A man reminiscing about a teenage romance once paused in mid-conversation with me.
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Reminiscing through the time
Reminiscing across language varieties
United States of America
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