Example Sentences

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Instead, Deputy City Manager Phillip Burum said, illicit vendors have memorized when officers begin their patrols.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024

By that point in the year, first graders were expected to have memorized 200 of these high-frequency words that aren’t easily decodable by new readers.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

I have memorized “Little Gorilla” and can recite it to you right now if you want to hear it.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

It is show with a story arc we have memorized: an escort to the booth; a chirpy server introduction; the inevitable “You still working on that?”; the extravagantly proportioned desserts, with names like “brownie obsession.”

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2020

It happens to many men, and I think doctors have memorized the litany.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck