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
• While shooting, Nichols needed a teleprompter to recite her lines.
  — al, 16 Aug. 2021
• 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
• At other times, people stand at her counter and recite their grievances to her face.
  — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• When the crowd filtered out, Zahra’s sister Suad, 62, came out reciting a mourning chant.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• For two hours, the monks recited rhythmic blessings and prayers, keeping the beat with a wooden block.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• In the clip for the seminal crime-comedy’s 30th anniversary, Jackson is seen sitting on a couch casually reciting the passage that describes the extent of the Lord’s anger and vengeance.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
• Each person sang a traditional song, recited its lyrics, played an instrumental version of its melody, then described its meaning.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024