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.
  • And there was the rhythm of names of the dead being recited again.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Repeat them until your team can recite them back in their sleep.
    — Hope Horner, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Those at the event were asked to stand and come together in reciting the song.
    — Megann Horstead, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
  • His answer, again and again, was to recite a litany of failure.
    — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 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
  • But, in the end, Nixon could not bring himself to recite the script.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Tarique Kazi used to recite the Quran to his mother.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 May 2026
  • My grand-aunt could recite the names of the five rivers that flowed through her part of Gujarat.
    — Suketu Mehta, Time, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Not to recite values, but to create the space where others can live them.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But, the very first was this guy, who recited the alphabet for us.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But, the very first was this guy, who recited the alphabet for us.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Davis recited her speech with the fervor of a monologue, though this was no act.
    — Hannah Malach, WWD, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The story, which Denman can now recite by heart, goes back to a test flight.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The roll call of great Longhorn quarterbacks doesn’t take long to recite.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • His grandfather would get drunk and would recite this poem.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Gaze out over the sea of winter coats as your neighbors recite poems, sing songs, share thoughts.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The justices recited both sides of the issue and did not say which side had the better claim.
    — David G. Savage, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • Then there was a song, and a teacher recited a prayer in English.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • More than 100 sound systems have been installed to recite the call to prayer.
    — Jack Jeffery, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Needless to say, the Jews have good reason to recite these sentences once a year.
    — David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 28 June 2018
  • Migos won best group and gave a fun performance that even had Adams reciting the lyrics.
    — Fox News, 25 June 2018
  • Artists moved by a love of the cold recited their verse while treading in the near-freezing river.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
  • At the end, Google recites all of the things the man had asked the device to remember.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Muslims are encouraged to spend the evenings in prayer and reciting the Quran.
    — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 30 May 2018
  • Players have to read words, images, or numbers that appear on the screen and recite them to the beat.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025

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