How to Use recital in a Sentence

recital

noun
  • At dance recitals and school events, my parents were always there.
    — Avalon Hester, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • At dance recitals and school events, my parents were always there.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2024
  • The third floor had more sheet music, an area for repairs and a stage for recitals.
    — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • My kid was doing his recital, was supposed to play the bug who has to go get the egg.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
  • May be biased but someone was a star at her 4-year-old dance recital!
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
  • And my parents came to all of my recitals and were very supportive.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2026
  • That recital would instantly be one of the hottest tickets in the city.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Why is the piano recital at the same time as the end-of-season sports banquet?
    — Jennifer Folsom, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Foster has performed in slams and recitals for about half of her 39 years.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Grocery shopping can be done via an app while waiting for the kids’ recital to start.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • When the recital has finished, a whisky toast is proposed, the first of many that will grace the evening.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Wang, for her recital, didn’t announce her program in advance or on the stage.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Pianist Lang Lang will present a solo recital.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The play concludes with the elders leaving to go see the younger women at their recital.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The school's website shows that Krause put on a senior recital in April.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Throughout the rosary recital in the grotto, I was plagued with worry.
    — Annie Ernaux, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • But Bernstein, who never gave a solo recital, had the widest range of all.
    — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 19 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Virginia’s dad, too busy to show up for her, used to hire a cameraman to film her school recitals in secret.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • My mom was a dancer, so growing up, makeup and dance recitals and dress-up, all of it was very, very normal for me.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Pianist Danae Dörken will perform an all-Bach recital.
    — La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But some bits, like Rogers missing his daughter’s recital while trying to seal the deal, come off as cliché.
    — WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The recital raised money for a statue of Bach that still stands outside the Leipzig church.
    — Gerri Marmer, Washington Post, 2 June 2017
  • The crash happened the day after Bradley took a day off to attend a recital of his daughter's.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • Her senior recital took place the same day that protests over the death of Freddie Gray began.
    — Elizabeth Nonemaker, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2022
  • Khloé gave her daughter her flowers at True's dance recital in 2024.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
  • 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

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