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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But Biden was not trying to recite the entire Pledge of Allegiance as the full version of the video shows.
  — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 24 Sep. 2020
• 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
• They were instructed to recite a series of lines that will form the bulk of the speech, which could last as long as 15 minutes.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 19 Aug. 2020
• Safe to say Savannah Guthrie could recite this kids' TV show theme song in her sleep!
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• He’s born to drums, so he was nurtured as a baby, when his father recited rhythms in his ear as an infant.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2024
• Before starting his school classes, Zakir recited the Quran at a madrasa and sang hymns at a Roman Catholic church.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025