learn by heart

Example Sentences

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"Every time lessons started, our teacher made us stand up, put a hand on our hearts and listen to the Russian anthem, which she made us learn by heart, too."

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

He talks, for example, about his grandmother Candida, a voracious reader who learns she’s going blind and asks Rodrigues to help her pick a book to learn by heart before her vision completely fails.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2021

Cesar recalled his laundry-tag I.D., the number of tables in the Belvedere dining hall, some words that appeared on the mimeographed list of Britishisms that the American students had to learn by heart.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014

Chances are, however, that you still remember whatever scraps of verse you did learn by heart and can repeat at least some of it today.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2012

This was something you couldn’t learn by heart out of a book — not that she hadn’t tried.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling