How to Use recite in a Sentence

recite

verb
  • He can easily recite all the facts about any player on the team.
  • He recited the poem with great feeling.
  • He began to recite from the Koran.
  • People come up to me on the street and recite my lines.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 28 July 2021
  • And there was the rhythm of names of the dead being recited again.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But, in the end, Nixon could not bring himself to recite the script.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • At the end, Google recites all of the things the man had asked the device to remember.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 3 Feb. 2020
  • My grand-aunt could recite the names of the five rivers that flowed through her part of Gujarat.
    — Suketu Mehta, Time, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Dua Qunoot is recited in the Witr salah, which is the last cycle of prayer in the evening Isha salah.
    — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Preller can still recite the sales pitch, word for word.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • For example, the fourth episode of the season saw the girls reciting a spell in Spanish to save the day.
    — Chelsea Greenwood Lassman, Teen Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
  • The figures for both Trump and Biden were programmed to recite the oath of office.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Jurors watched a video of her reciting all of the state capitals in the U.S. at age 3.
    — oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The roll call of great Longhorn quarterbacks doesn’t take long to recite.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Andrew sends me a clip of the actor John Hurt reciting it: here.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2024
  • To be fair, Mr. Collins is sometimes pressed to recite lyrics to his own old songs, his wife says.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • His answer, again and again, was to recite a litany of failure.
    — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The story, which Denman can now recite by heart, goes back to a test flight.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The purpose of the prayers is for him and his aunt to recite the Kaddish, to sanctify God’s name in their time of grief.
    — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Moses did stumble over some of the words to the athlete's pledge he was picked to recite to open the games, so the Olympics weren't perfect for him.
    — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Many settle in the area, and recite their connection to the post like the title on a business card.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The diver moves side to side while reciting lines and playing monstrous sounds from the sea floor.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • Though many of them can recite the Bible from memory, they haven’t been taught to read and write.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The draft order takes a few minutes to recite, and 60 could not be sustained.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 9 July 2018
  • More than 100 sound systems have been installed to recite the call to prayer.
    — Jack Jeffery, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Their names are added to a list so long that most cannot recite it from memory.
    — Adam Rosen, The Denver Post, 3 June 2020
  • The chaplain began to recite a prayer with the members of Congress.
    — NBC News, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Needless to say, the Jews have good reason to recite these sentences once a year.
    — David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 28 June 2018
  • It is typically recited by popes, but was sung by Pope Leo.
    — Sarah Ventre, NPR, 11 May 2025
  • The terrorists also gave the would-be victims the option to recite the kalma, the declaration of Islamic faith often used during religious conversion, to avoid being killed.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025

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