recto

Example Sentences

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“Sobekmose,” a masterwork containing about 100 spells, is unusual, in part, because it’s inscribed recto and verso.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Exterior becomes interior — or verso becomes recto — in Leedham’s wittily jumbled tableaux.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

Then on the recto the book opens up a trapdoor: “But what else is time?”

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

The first two parts of The Same Life Twice are arranged in a verso and recto standoff, and often engage each other in an unseemly slanging match across the page.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2012

On the recto, one to the same lady from Olive.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine