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.
• For him, 2024 could in fact turn out to be a final reckoning.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
• And over the past 18 months, the industry has faced a reckoning: What goes up must come down.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
• This does not happen in the film, and in the grand reckoning with the king, Prince Henry’s mother is nowhere in sight.
  — Samuel Maude, ELLE, 11 Aug. 2023
• Floyd's death triggered a string of racial reckoning in the country and months of protests across the country.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• When the #MeToo reckoning came and Hollywood needed to change, again the Guild spoke up.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2023
• By some reckoning, these are the best automotive buys in the world.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• Yet the shock to the tech ecosystem and its elite may still bring down a reckoning for many who believe it’s got nothing to do with them.
  — WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• All of this is prelude to the coming reckoning at next month’s synod.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• After living in Corona, Stewart returned to Brea again in 2018, while the city was in the midst of a racial reckoning.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• The change comes amid a reckoning of the fraught history of team names across the American sports landscape.
  — April Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
• Naked Wines started with a bang but has since undergone a bit of a reckoning.
  — Men's Health, 8 Mar. 2023
• Thursday’s day of reckoning was seven years in the making.
  — Jmanning, oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
• The past year has brought a reckoning for the once unsinkable industry.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
• In August 2020, the magazine gestured to the country’s racial reckoning after the killing of George Floyd.
  — Laura Wagner, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• The reckoning over whether to show the public gruesome images of violent acts dates back decades in the United States.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 8 May 2023
• During this time—which began this year on Sept. 16—our reckoning before the Supreme Judge is so fearsome that the very fish are said to tremble in the seas.
  — Ruth R. Wisse, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
• That lays a creaky foundation for the movie’s third-act shift to New York, where a twisty, painful but necessary reckoning with Miko looms.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• The shadow worlds were coming up—the shadows of our past were surfacing in the racial-justice reckonings.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
• During the busiest shopping season of the year, self-checkout might be having a reckoning.
  — Anne D’innocenzio, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
• Properties sold for $50 per square foot, a tenth of today’s prices, by one reckoning.
  — Roger Showley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
• The mighty smartphone is facing a reckoning—at least from a sales perspective.
  — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• Nothing in his pampered life has prepared him for the reckoning that’s coming his way.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• But for the continent to catch up, the first step is an honest reckoning of how much work remains to be done, according to Thomas.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• Recent years have brought a cultural reckoning with how young women of the Nineties and Aughts were treated by the media.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
• Although her death prompted a reckoning in the gymnastics world, progress has been slow.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024