recitation

Example Sentences

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What the book is not is a recitation of big games and important goals.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

I led everyone gathered in the auditorium in a rousing recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

It’s worth a recitation of the original case’s backstory at this point, because this litigation has become a house of cards, with new, precarious levels being added all the time.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2025

On the outside, it seems like it’s a quiet, calm ballad as it opens; Ellis on guitar, a recitation of the story of "a girl who’s got no history / got no past."

From Salon • May 13, 2025

Radio Caribe, the government station, is having a recitation contest, but most of the poems are about El Jefe, so Mami turns it off.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez