All 28 Uses of
recite
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
- Then he and Rafferty walk up the stairs and find an isolated spot midway down a long ramp, where the special agent recites the details of his message.†
- He hears the solitary wailing, he hears his statistician reciting numbers in fake French.†
- She sat high in the seat, reciting details, and wagged her head, mock-girlish but also girlish.†
- Arthur recited lyrics to me once on the company plane and together we laughed his wacko laugh, those enunciated ha-has, clear and slow and well spaced, like laughing with words.†
- He'd written out directions that the man had recited over the phone.†
- The man had recited the routes and streets in a manner so automatic that Brian realized many pilgrims had made the trip across the river.†
- That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stones of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century—the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.†
- I listened to Sims recite the numbers, how much methane we would recover to light how many homes, and I felt a weird elation, a loyalty to the company and the cause.†
- Maybe he was just recalling the old slogan, idly, reciting the thing simply because he'd thought of it, because it had shot to mind out of some nowhere in the memory, but it was odd and unsettling.†
- And he saw everything, collected movie posters and lobby cards, could recite the filmographies of the obscurest directors because the more obscure the figure, of course, the more valuable the knowledge.†
- She loved to swim, she went to the Y nearly every day and stroked invisibly through the water, delivering herself to the laps, the soothing pool lengths, monotonous and restoring, like the rote recitations in early school—stiffens your sense of who you are, "The thing about summer is you feel you have the city to yourself."†
- Reciting Latin epigrams to business majors in a place called Paradise Valley.†
- Alone in Esther's car she talked about left turn and right turn, reciting directions aloud, telling herself to stop on red.†
- The waiter stood there reciting the specials.†
- I recited a list.†
- She spoke urgently and excitedly up to the pause and then she paused and moaned slowly and then she finished reciting the slogan, finally, all sated and limp and moaned out, and then she started from the beginning again.†
- She began to understand that someone or some group had taken over the radio and as the day waned a man recited instructions for the manufacture of a fertilizer bomb.†
- Three voices chanting liturgically, a priest reciting the same line over and over and two altar boys delivering fixed responses.†
- He wanted to recite the destinies of a hundred linked souls, the street swarm that roared in his head.†
- He recited the word for the child one last time as she was hustled out.†
- She recited questions from the Baltimore Catechism and her students responded in a single crystal voice.†
- To hear the assigned questions and to recite the right answers was the best part of the school day.†
- It was not so different really from opening and shutting the cloakroom doors with two of his classmates or reciting mass answers to Sister's questions from the catechism.†
- For all her endless skepticism, Carmela was a frequent figure at early morning mass and Rosemary wanted her to take the story more seriously, or to concede the grandmother's credentials at least, long periods of prayer with a number of other old women, all in graveclothes, reciting the mysteries.†
- She wanted to recite the poem to her class when school reopened.
*recite = say aloud
- And she would recite the poem to them, crooking her finger at their hearts.†
- They ride all the way in silence with the older nun mind-reciting questions and answers from the Baltimore Catechism.†
- Ten years' indulgence, a blockbuster number, if the prayer is recited at dawn, noon and eventide, or as soon thereafter as possible.†
Definition:
to say or read something aloud -- especially something previously memorized such as a poem
or:
to say in detail -- especially a list of things
or:
to say in detail -- especially a list of things