All 7 Uses of
recite
in
Dreaming in Cuban
- She remembers the singsong way she used to recite their names.†
Chpt 1.1
- During high mass, her sister and father recited the Lord's Prayer with loud precision and clung forever to the last syllables of the hymns.†
Chpt 1.6
- They'd sit together for hours listening to the rhythm of the sea and the poems her mother recited as if in a dream.†
Chpt 2.8
- I do a perfect replication of her a bit left of center canvas, changing only two details: first, I make Liberty's torch float slightly beyond her grasp, and second, I paint her right hand reaching over to cover her left breast, as if she's reciting the National Anthem or some other slogan.†
Chpt 2.9
- He'd call me up to the front of the class and ask me to recite a poem we had read only once.†
Chpt 2.10
- "July 26, 1978," she recites, as if Felicia were a teacher testing her history.†
Chpt 2.10
- Abuela knows each poem by heart, and recites them quite dramatically.
Chpt 3.16 *recites = to say or read something aloud
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