Definition: 1. To remember something. 2. To make somebody think of something. 3. A call to return. 4. A bugle call that signals troops to return.
Use 'recall' in a sentence:
1. More than 3,000 cars were recalled yesterday because of a brake problem.
2. They have both been recalled to the Welsh squad.
3. How might this inability to recall early experiences be explained?
4. He recalled her still face and the hurt in her eyes when he had refused her help.
5. Do you recall falling sick on a day when you didn't want to go to school?
6. I have no idea what she said, something about airline travel, I seem to recall.
7. If I recall correctly, he lives in Luton.
8. I recalled the way they had been dancing together.
9. He recalled exactly what Bob had told him the previous night.
10. The company has recalled all the faulty hairdryers.
11. You can recall that we had such a demonstration before.
12. I recall every detail of the party.
13. A few people with remarkable memories are said to have “total recall.”
14. They recall the good buddies they used to have in middle school.
15. A handful of people can recall almost every day of their lives in enormous detail — and after years of research, neuroscientists are finally beginning to understand how they do it.
16. I hate to recall how often I've "loaned" her a dollar or two for a drink or a movie.
17. Without numbers, healthy human adults struggle to precisely distinguish and recall quantities as low as four.
18. Her teacher recalled: 'She was always on about modelling.'
19. He recalled that she always came home late on Wednesdays.
20. I recall many discussions with her on these and kindred topics.
21. Recall the fate of the Columbian white-tailed deer, now in a protected status.
22. That is a good question, since the capacity for recall has always been linked with the ability to talk.
23. Friends recalled Elisabeth's prophetic words of several years ago.
24. Perhaps you can recall what was said but not in what language it was said.
25. What is distinctive in the suggestopedic method is that they are devoted entirely to assisting recall.
26. I've been racking my brains all morning, trying to recall where I put my gold watch.
27. The company said it was recalling one of its drugs.
28. This study showed that very young children under the age of 2 do have the capacity for recall.
29. The ground has been polluted beyond recall.
30. As you recall, an adaptation is a physical or behavioral feature of a species that helps it survive and reproduce.
31. The old-timers used to recall how hot 1886 was.
32. I do not recall if I produced it and showed him a copy of it.
33. Two people in the flat recalled hearing a loud crash about 1.30 a.m.
34. He recalled her devotion to her husband during his hour of need.
35. He tried to recall the layout of the farmhouse.
36. She could not recall his name.
37. At home, his children recall, he prized the solitude of his lawnmower.
38. A fellow student could recall being taught nothing more profound than what to do in a thunderstorm at night.
39. I had some difficulty at first recalling why we were there.
40. Taking a bus into Manhattan and then going into the museum. And what I just recall is walking around like this.
41. The poem recalls Eliot's 'The Waste Land'.
42. Public employees, teachers and liberals are circulating a petition for his recall.
43. Pace may vary at times as speaker attempts to recall information.
44. Now, as you recall from the uranium 238 slide, I think the next slide will show it.
45. Even profound amnesiacs can usually recall how to perform daily activities.
46. Both countries recalled their ambassadors.
47. As you recall, an adaptation is any feature.
48. Do you recall how many prisoners were placed in each cell?
49. He had a good memory, and total recall of her spoken words.
50. The recall of Ambassador Alan Green is a public signal of America's concern.
51. I can't recall meeting her before.
52. Can you recall exactly what happened?
53. She has amazing powers of recall.
54. Colleagues today recall with humor how meetings would crawl into the early morning hours.
