Sample Sentences for
rote
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    "They will get used to it," the soldier said as if the words were rote in his mouth.  (source)
    rote = memorized by repetition
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    And yet, in certain ways, the Institute did remind them of other schools: Rote memorization of lessons was discouraged but required; class participation was encouraged but rarely permitted; and although quizzes were given every day, in every class, there was always at least one student who groaned, another who acted surprised, and another who begged the teacher, in vain, not to give it.  (source)
    Rote = by repetition
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    But from an early age he had been a questioning kind of boy who rarely took anything at face value, even though our education at government schools meant learning by rote and pupils were not supposed to question teachers.  (source)
    rote = memorization by repetition
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    She had gone to a school that emphasized rote memorization, for which she was by temperament particularly ill-suited, and so she spent a great deal of time doodling in the margins of her textbooks and notebooks, hunched over to hide curlicues and miniature woodland universes from the eyes of her teachers.  (source)
    rote = by repetition
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    At first Werner worries they're taking him downstairs—please, not another pit—but he is brought to the third floor, where an exhausted interpreter who has been booking German prisoners for a month notes his name and rank, then asks a few rote questions while the clerk rifles through Werner's canvas duffel and hands it back.  (source)
    rote = routine (done many times before without thinking)
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    "For the kaiser, God, and the fatherland," the young forester intoned, as though he had learned the response by rote.  (source)
    rote = routine (done automatically, without thinking, because it's been repeated so often)
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    Instead of being a rote learning thing, there's a pattern I can figure out.  (source)
    rote = memorization by repetition
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    "Your rote memorization is, like, so impressive," I said.  (source)
    rote = by repetition
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    The major difficulty in training animals is that they operate either by instinct or by rote.  (source)
    rote = routine (done many times before without thinking)
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    She said this as if by rote.  (source)
    rote = routine (done automatically, without thinking, because it's been repeated so often)
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    All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.†  (source)
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    "Mark it with your initials," said Mr. Dark, by rote.†  (source)
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    The MetaCops emit rote, shallow laughter.†  (source)
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    He rote somthing down on a paper and I got skared of faling the test.  (source)
    rote = misspelling of "wrote" (done intentionally by author)
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    Dr Strauss rote some things on a peice of paper and prof Nemur talkd to me very sereus.  (source)
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    I read them over and over a lot of times to see what I rote and I dont no whats going on in my mind so how are they going to.  (source)
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    And Dr Strauss tolld Prof Nemur somthing I dint understand so wile they was talking I rote down some of the words in my notebook for keeping my progris riports.  (source)
    rote = misspelling of "wrote" (done intentionally by author)
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    She rote the name down on a paper and Frank laffed and said dont go getting so eddicated that you wont talk to your old frends.  (source)
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