learn by rote
Example Sentences
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A lot of players learn by rote so that things eventually become automatically - that's difficult to do in a short space of time unless you have the natural talent.
From BBC • May 10, 2017
Instead, teachers drum into students a ton of stuff they must learn by rote so as to jump through hoops leading up to the all-important university entrance examination.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2012
They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their education was a poetical one, for it was necessary to learn by rote several thousand verses, in which all the knowledge then extant was contained.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 557, July 14, 1832 by Various
She found it very hard to learn by rote all the psalms and hymns.
From Ditte: Girl Alive! by Nexø, Martin Andersen
