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
• But, in the end, Nixon could not bring himself to recite the script.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• 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
• The roll call of great Longhorn quarterbacks doesn’t take long to recite.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• More than 100 sound systems have been installed to recite the call to prayer.
  — Jack Jeffery, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• The chaplain began to recite a prayer with the members of Congress.
  — NBC News, 26 Aug. 2021
• Then the voice began to recite a series of nonsense words.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
• The Bureau added that Bateman made the girls recite that there was no adultery, darkness or guilt in the acts.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
• Davis recited her speech with the fervor of a monologue, though this was no act.
  — Hannah Malach, WWD, 6 Oct. 2024
• He’s peppered the air and our ears with a long list of pet phrases that an entire state can recite by heart.
  — Kevin Scarbinsky | Special To Al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2022
• There are a bunch of scenes where characters pray or recite a couple of lines in Old Norse.
  — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 24 Feb. 2022
• The little guy is too young (at least by the standards of his species) to talk, and thus too young to recite the Creed and don a helmet full-time.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
• Safe to say Savannah Guthrie could recite this kids' TV show theme song in her sleep!
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• But the event had a twist: Children would have to sing a song or recite a poem in exchange for candy.
  — Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
• While shooting, Nichols needed a teleprompter to recite her lines.
  — al, 16 Aug. 2021
• In a bare room, students seated on the floor recite the alphabet.
  — Eileen Ng, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2020
• By writing the spells of objects to be placed inside a coffin, the mummy could recite the spells.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• Davis recited from Psalm 119, the same verse used to open Hallie’s baptism.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Earlier in the event, Stein got the crowd roaring by reciting some of Robinson's most controversial statements.
  — Alexandria Sands, Axios, 26 Oct. 2024
• The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024