Sample Sentences for
recite
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    I was actually required to do a lot more than simply recite dialogue.  (source)
    recite = say aloud (from memory)
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    MARY WARREN: Aye, but then Judge Hathorne say, "Recite for us your commandments!"  (source)
    Recite = say aloud from memory
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    You used to recite some, but I don't remember them.  (source)
    recite = say aloud (lines previously memorized)
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    The class recited the standard response in unison.  (source)
    recited = said aloud (from memory)
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    Some guys in school hardly ever get up to recite or go to the blackboard.  (source)
    recite = say or read aloud
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    It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you reciting the twelve uses of dragon's blood or practicing wand movements.  (source)
    reciting = saying aloud
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    He had practiced his recitation over and over, hour after lonely hour.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Abuela knows each poem by heart, and recites them quite dramatically.  (source)
    recites = to say or read something aloud
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    Afterwards there were recitations of poems composed in Napoleon's honor, and a speech by Squealer giving particulars of the latest increases in the production of foodstuffs, and on occasion a shot was fired from the gun.  (source)
    recitations = the reading (or saying aloud from memory)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Old Granum was the deathbed watcher and Psalm reciter, feeble and ruination-faced, in Chinatown black alpaca and minute, slippered feet.†  (source)
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    He recited the alphabet for Zero, then Zero repeated it without a single mistake.  (source)
    recited = said out loud
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    And when the war's over, some day, some year, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by one, to recite what they know and we'll set it up in type until another Dark Age, when we might have to do the whole damn thing over again.  (source)
    recite = say aloud (from memory)
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    Even now, Dede hears her sister, reciting that poem she wrote in jail,  (source)
    reciting = to say or read something aloud
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