How to Use reckoning in a Sentence

reckoning

noun

• The team is still in the reckoning.
• Because of his injury, he is out of the reckoning.
• When the day of reckoning comes, we will have to face some unpleasant truths.
• Our football team hardly comes into the reckoning.
• I was more than $10 off in my reckoning.
• Yet now is a time of reckoning.
  — Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
• What a reckoning that must have been.
  — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
• But by then, his reckoning was swift.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
• That would be a healthy reckoning.
  — Federico Peña, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
• At some point, there would've maybe had to have been some sort of reckoning.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• April is a month of reckoning, and a lot of that won’t be fun to go through.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2024
• Democrats face the same reckoning.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2026
• By my reckoning, that is the line between mid-sized stocks and small stocks.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• That’s not just because of the reckoning that forces the record’s hand.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
• As far as he’s concerned, the reckoning can’t come fast enough.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2025
• Handy's death was the reckoning for the entire project.
  — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
• The reckoning cannot stop with a change in donor behavior alone.
  — Time, 26 Feb. 2026
• Global warming might force a reckoning in the next few years.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• For many who crossed paths with West, the reckoning feels overdue.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• The Five — opined that Democrats are set to face a reckoning at the polls soon.
  — Andy Meek, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• But in addition to that, there must be a reckoning with the past and the harm that has been done.
  — Michelle Boorstein, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
• That hasn’t happened—yet—but the prospect of the platform’s end has forced a reckoning.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2022
• And there are stories, there are lessons, there are reckonings that have to come through us as vessels.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
• To truly adapt to the future will require a reckoning with our way of life.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
• And that really was a, a reckoning for me, that this was gonna be my career.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2023
• This is a reckoning that has been in the making since the civil rights movement.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
• For Brazil, the trial is a reckoning.
  — Júlia Dias Carneiro, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
• The United States is in a new era and the days of reckoning are here.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Martinez said the claims could force a broader reckoning.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026
• Our country is at a moment of reckoning.
  — Pramila Jayapal, Time, 15 Apr. 2026