How to Use recital in a Sentence

recital

noun
  • Ramirez isn’t doing a one-man recital of Casey at the Bat.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2022
  • By the day of my recital, Haas and I both had our escapes from Basel planned.
    Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That recital would instantly be one of the hottest tickets in the city.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The play concludes with the elders leaving to go see the younger women at their recital.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Her senior recital took place the same day that protests over the death of Freddie Gray began.
    Elizabeth Nonemaker, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2022
  • And these for an old-fashioned Lied recital on the day before Liszt’s 210th birthday.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Wang, for her recital, didn’t announce her program in advance or on the stage.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • And for a review of Elza van den Heever, the South African soprano, in recital, go here.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Apr. 2022
  • After the recital, Kate vents to her boss/co-worker Phillip about her fight with Toby.
    Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The photo is the latest Khloé has shared from daughter True Thompson and Dream's first dance recital.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2022
  • But some bits, like Rogers missing his daughter’s recital while trying to seal the deal, come off as cliché.
    WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In April 2022, Tyler shared photos of Boheme from a recent dance recital.
    Maggie Kreienberg, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s a review of Beatrice Rana, the young Italian pianist, in recital.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Morton had known that his mother was hellbent on driving to the recital, storm or no.
    Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • For some reason, the opening then devolved into a very strange dance recital from your nephew's high school.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • His fiancee could very well find herself with his ex at a Little League game or dance recital.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2021
  • His fiancée could very well find herself with his ex at a Little League game or dance recital.
    cleveland, 19 Sep. 2021
  • And Friday’s recital is a product of that, of grappling with how to be an orchestra at the same time as a piano.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The pungency of its timbre puts the ears on alert and on edge: no one can fall into a blissful trance at an oboe recital.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The tenor Jonas Kaufmann’s voice rarely came alive in a recital whose halves were dully drawn from his two most recent albums.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Livestreamed concerts by mainstream artists are often more like note-by-note recitals.
    Jenn Pelly, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Here is a review of Fatma Said, the Egyptian soprano, in recital.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2023
  • And for a review of Denis Matsuev, the Russian pianist, in a solo recital, go here.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Schlachte agreed to be a part of the documentary, and Watt and his crew filmed for the next 10 months, following students in class, at home and at their recital.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Entertainer Sandy Duncan danced in her first recital at age five in a tiny Texas oil town.
    CBS News, 22 July 2022
  • All the victories, on soccer fields or piano recital halls.
    Robin Marantz Henig, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The violin and piano recital has not always been treated as a meeting of equals.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The singing lessons bore fruit in the early 1960s, when Farouk arranged her debut performance at a black-tie recital of arias at an arts club in Naples.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • Molly, a mom of two in Washington, D.C., didn't expect the F-word to come up at a rehearsal for her daughter's dance recital.
    Virginia Sole-Smith, Parents, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In May 2023, Josh shared a sweet series of photos of her first dance recital on his Instagram Story.
    Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024

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