Example Sentences

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“You don’t want to be the person who is reciting your CV and listing off movies.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

It’s a problem he has yet to solve by the season finale, when he is reciting a soliloquy of self-loathing in the locked walk-in refrigerator on the opening night of his restaurant.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

“Everyone is reciting incantations that in no case can we allow World War III,” he said in a Russian television interview.

From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2022

But as Ian is reciting the spell to regenerate their father, something goes wrong, leaving the brothers looking at a pair of legs, and nothing up top.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2020

Julicza is reciting the Puerto Rican national anthem, “La Borinquena.”

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles