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Definition of reckon:

  • (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | think | imagine
  • (verb) judge to be probable
  • (verb) deem to be;

Sentence Examples:

"I'm not saying the time was wasted," he went on; "I reckon it was a good thing you came."

I reckon single women as they get on in years is apt so to be.

In fact, I reckon Cartwright has got the proper men for the job.

I reckon I knew most of what you say, Marty, but I hadn't thought of it that way before.

And so she feels safe about me; safer than I feel about myself, I reckon.

I hate to think of it, but I reckon a fellow has got to submit.

I shall reckon any man my personal enemy who proposes any such measure.

"I reckon your plan will work," he said to Kit, with a nod of satisfaction.

A man living in the wilds has much to think of, to reckon out and fit in as best can be.

It was not till I was fairly off, that I began to reckon up what money I had with me.

We laughed at this, for by our reckoning he might almost have been our father.

I reckon your heart is all right, even if your uniform is the wrong color.

If they ever give way, I reckon I'll have to stay in bed all day.

I reckon he was the best-hated man among us, except the Reverend Burgess.

Such a frost is to be reckoned with on an average of about once in five years.

The only happy time, and the happiest, I reckon, that I ever'll have.

He beat instead a quiet, if substantial, retreat, and put off the hour of reckoning.

"I reckon you might about as well give it up," remarked Lieutenant Jack Benson coolly.

"I reckon they'll turn her right in against the Germans," was his reply.

Steve said; and I got hot at him, and I reckon I must have told him what I thought of him.

I reckon he must have been worried pretty desperate, or he wouldn't have run away.

The fruit is as big as a large apple, and is reckoned very good, but I never tasted it.

Coming back, though, the cargo was worth more than the insurance, I reckon.

His own experience was no rule to indicate what might be reckoned on by others.

I reckon that was a sign you were coming to ask me about those things.

If they had any trouble with their reckoning, I did not ascertain it.

I reckon I never run across a deal with two people fixed just like you.

He said this with the air of one carefully reckoning up and striking a balance.

No, Kate was all right, but there was young Ryder to reckon with.

Well, well; if she didn't want the man I reckon she knows best.

I reckon you could do a bigger trade than you have the money to handle.

Now, whatever do you reckon put the notion in his head to call me 'Pang?

He's engaged to a girl I know, and I reckon I'm doing her a good turn by sticking to him.

"How in thunder do you reckon they got up here in such a short time?"

When I get in the wet, I screw my nut and the blooming old tub was gone down, I reckon!

And I reckon the Kid would be one of a dozen who would take on the job dirt cheap!

By the noon observation however we were eighteen miles to the southward of our reckoning.

I awakened to the knowledge that she was to be reckoned with in this situation.

First set your trap, and you can reckon on hare nature to do the rest.

Well, I reckon she's the most splendid thing this old world has ever had on top of it!

Nations reckon their strength in peace, but only war itself discloses the fact.

He reckoned that he could reach it in a half hour, if he exerted himself.

"Reckon we'll soon have as many chances as we want to use it, an' more."

I reckon you know I ain't, but I got to live up to it and kind of let her down easy-like.

He was hurt during the storm, but I reckon he's all right now.

Nothing but firmness and strict justice will avert a bloody day of reckoning.

The trouble was he did not reckon on her asking after it, which she most surely did.

It's all right, son; you're a man grown, and I reckon you know best what you want to do.

I reckon we do need a few men like that, Evan; need 'em mighty bad.

Truly, the Austrians had reckoned without their foe in laying their cunning plot.

They call me Windy Bill, and I reckon that's about right.

"I'll have my reckoning with your friend," he assured her angrily.

"Reckon he forgot something, and has to come back after it?"

Of course, men like you reckon you know most everything there is to be known.

If you can trap a flock of wild ones, I reckon you can have them.

My lamp went out, and I reckon I said "Our Father" over a hundred times.

Five days from Hispaniola we met a hurricane that carried us out of all reckoning.

"Jerry, I reckon you can hold the only gang way that opens in on this place, can't ye?"

"I reckon I'll just drop in an' ask him how his health is."

I reckon if it had seen you young ladies it would have run.

And I reckon what Eve said wasn't much diff'rent from that.

I reckon I can get my meals down at the hotel.

I reckon not; but Toot sorter lays claim to 'er though.

I reckon he'll take his measure as easily as he took Jack Armstrong's.

I reckon he must have been worried pretty desperate, or he wouldn't have run away.

What do you reckon my father'd be doing all that time?

I reckon you better stick to the woman, and cut me.

Petrarch, in his Triumphs of Love, reckons him an excellent poet.

Those would be mighty unfortunate manners for a preacher, I reckon.

She wondered, would she have to reckon with that, henceforth, too?

She put her thoughts from her, admitting that she had never had to reckon with that, yet.

"You may be reckoned among that class in the next world."

"I reckon it only comes in the right hand with anybody."

From this we can reckon the productivity of the insect's ovaries.

I reckon you and me will pull together all right, Dick.

I reckon I must be a good deal of a fool, Uncle Jasper.

Well, I reckon Jack knew what to do all right enough.

"I reckon I can ask the same question," returned the stranger.

He said; "I reckon I ain't man enough to take care of myself!"

The dramatist in those days had to reckon with his audience.

"We need not reckon that out at present," another smoker said.

"The doctor will have to fix it up, I reckon; for it is cut up pretty bad with the iron."

"I don't reckon she ever was, real," said Karen Jensen, simply.

"I don't know; I reckon she will," said Basil Ransom good-humoredly.

I reckon we can get along without him now, don't you?

I reckon that they will last me about three winters longer.

I believe that she, too, will have to face a day of reckoning.

I reckon the idea never got within a mile of his brain that he may not suit me at all.

I reckon it's your natures to be that way.

"I reckon we all wish that," had been Sam Rover's reply.

I reckon we shall be there by six, and day does not begin to break till an hour later.

They reckon they've none but us to deal with.

Palmer more quiet, I reckon you'd call it sad.

Reckon me as much your enemy now as ever!

"Not now, I reckon," he said, and the General laughed again.

Well, I reckon I'll take a walk over and see how it looks at this end of the pass, anyhow.

I reckon turn about is fair play, ain't it?

"I reckon a pipe would help me make up my mind," said one.

Reckon I never before turned down an even bet.

Unfortunately he was not the only person to be reckoned with.