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.
• And a city left to reckon with both.
  — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
• This can be hard for some folks to reckon with.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026
• And this is the part the left must reckon with.
  — Rachel O'Leary Carmona, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2026
• When whole, the 76ers are a team to be reckoned with.
  — Tony Jones, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
• And most boards have not yet fully reckoned with what that means.
  — Jane Sadowsky, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2026
• There’s a lot of reckoning going on in his life right now.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
• Cold is one of the oldest forces our bodies have had to reckon with.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• Again and again, its art forces a viewer to reckon with those limits.
  — Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2021
• The city must realize this and reckon with it.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
• 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
• And the change from reckoning to rewind seems to have happened overnight.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
• The near miss, coupled with my injury, forced me to reckon with risk.
  — Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2024
• Investors were forced to reckon with troubling signs from around the globe.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• She’s long reckoned with his legacy, both for better and for worse.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
• Maybe next year, maybe in five years, or maybe never, Lee reckons.
  — Bynick Rockel, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
• The hiatus wasn’t about rest as much as reckoning.
  — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• Those who lived through the 2017 blazes reckoned that would be it for a while.
  — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• Indeed, there has been a sense for a while that there would be a day of reckoning for the club.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
• But rather than reckon with the horror of his death, Dorothy shut away the truth in her mind.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• She is then forced to reckon with her past and take ownership of her future.
  — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
• These are the difficult questions this next phase will force us to reckon with.
  — Jane Metcalfe, Wired, 5 July 2020
• The rest were unsure or reckoned the two would cancel each other out.
  — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 22 Apr. 2026
• Moody reckoned that pretty much everyone in the class would want to take a big swing at it.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 25 July 2025
• All that said, there’s still the behemoth of Pride to reckon with.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 June 2022
• Changes that come from the Iran war reckoning may be kinder to some than others.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 12 May 2026