RECOGNIZE in a Sentence

Learn RECOGNIZE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
336 example sentences for RECOGNIZE, such as:
1. One finds it difficult to recognize.
2. Former days did not recognize Yesterday.
3. It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize.
4. We must recognize that we have been defeated.
5. The odd thing was that he didn't recognize me.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RECOGNIZE
recognize
 v.  show approval or appreciation of
 v.  express greetings upon meeting someone
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In the daytime it would have been possible to recognize it as nothing more than a miner's candlestick.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
2  It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
3  He went up to this tree and passed his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and count all the warts.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
4  Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by certain signs, Thenardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very strong person.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
5  He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
6  No one knew the man; as Cosette was no longer in rags, many did not recognize her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
7  Former days did not recognize Yesterday.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
8  For in his own mind, he agreed with the Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the title of either colonel or baron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
9  The work is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, it becomes terrible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
10  As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
11  As he had ceased to intercept Marius' visual ray, Marius could examine this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a background of smoke, and a man carrying another man.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
12  In all that has been related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than Thenardier to recognize Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET
13  One finds it difficult to recognize.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
14  Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
15  Hence arise troubles; but after these troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  We recognize the necessity for a written agreement.
2  I almost didn't recognize her - she'd changed so much.
3  As parents we recognize the value of you in our child's development.
4  The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
5  I wonder if I'll recognize Philip after all these years.
6  Blind persons can often recognize objects by feeling them.
7  Sometimes, the key to making progress is to recognize how to take that very first step.
8  Line up these men and see if the witness can recognize the criminal.
9  Classroom activities here would prepare the learners to recognize the relevant co-occurrences and correlations as they occur in actual use.
10  We must recognize that we have been defeated.
11  I didn't recognize him because he had altered so much.
12  We need to recognize that we are now living in a plural society.
13  I don't know the title but I recognize the tune.
14  The odd thing was that he didn't recognize me.
15  I could hardly recognize the body of the driver, as it had been badly mangled up in the accident.