Example sentences for: recite

How can you use “recite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Lorin Brown reports that in northern New Mexico the children went out on Christmas Eve, but in Canutillo, Texas, around the 1920s, it was the custom for children to go door to door on Christmas Day, although they didn’t recite the above chant.

  • Twenty years on, I can still recite verbatim an ingeniously laconic love poem sent to a Blue Peter presenter of my youth: "Lesley Judd is really fantastic,/ Doing her nut with sticky-back plastic."

  • Your "Summary Judgment" column is nothing short of Talmudic in its commentary, and the ironic humor of "The Week/The Spin" reminds me of the Jewish folk tales my grandparents used to recite to me back in Czechoslovakia.

  • Across the street, Catholic protestors in white berets recite Hail Marys into a megaphone.

  • Upon admission to the bar, every Colorado lawyer must recite the Lawyer's Oath, which states in part: "I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed."


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