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 recital was a re-creation of a 1910 program by the Kneisel Quartet.
    Joe Banno, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The cellist and the pianist share the stage in a recital livestreamed from the Irvine Barclay Theatre.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Why is the piano recital at the same time as the end-of-season sports banquet?
    Jennifer Folsom, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The school's website shows that Krause put on a senior recital in April.
    Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The dancers are in the midst of learning their routines for a recital scheduled for June 20.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2020
  • What happens when the big event is not a rec-room recital but, say, the Winter Olympics?
    Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2018
  • He was supposed to join Brandy and his youngest son, Ryan, at his school for a band recital.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 May 2020
  • The third floor had more sheet music, an area for repairs and a stage for recitals.
    Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The recital raised money for a statue of Bach that still stands outside the Leipzig church.
    Gerri Marmer, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • Foster has performed in slams and recitals for about half of her 39 years.
    Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Her recital, sold out, was all Schubert – three sonatas.
    Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Dozens of them, in fact, from recitals to full-fledged opera productions.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 25 June 2017
  • 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
  • In many ways, the dress was all wrong for the evening’s musical recital at Goldsmiths’ Hall.
    Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Here is a music item: Evgeny Kissin played a recital in Carnegie Hall.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 May 2024
  • For a review of Yefim Bronfman, the pianist, in recital at Carnegie Hall, go here.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 May 2024
  • The other girls are committed, fine, but that recital could mean a lot to that girl.
    Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • With that in mind, a wholesale treatment of the record is more chamber recital than jive pageant.
    oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2020
  • But Bernstein, who never gave a solo recital, had the widest range of all.
    Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 19 Mar. 2018
  • At dance recitals and school events, my parents were always there.
    Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • May be biased but someone was a star at her 4-year-old dance recital!
    Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
  • Join with others for a recital by students of the mother and daughter team of Jody and Caryl Guinn.
    cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The gardens will host art classes and bird watching for the public, as well as music and recitals, Tran told the real estate agents.
    Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Terfel appeared in one of the company’s pandemic-era video recitals, beaming in from a cathedral in Wales for a warmhearted holiday program in December 2020.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025

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