verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
recite a poem (= say it without reading it )
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The little girl was standing up, reciting a poem.
recite poetry (= say it to people from memory )
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Occasionally, my father would recite the poetry of Baudelaire.
recite/repeat a mantra
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He closed his eyes and began to recite a Buddhist mantra.
say/recite the rosary
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Three nuns knelt there, reciting the rosary.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
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Usually, the children recite what has made them happy lately, and what has made them sad.
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Suppose you were required, as a child , to recite a poem in front of your class.
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The playground was empty but he could hear the sing-song voices of children reciting tables as he paused by the railings.
lines
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With every step her energy crackled; scarcely knowing at first what she said, she found herself reciting the lines from Cymbeline.
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All Erma had to do was recite the lines .
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Oh, he was covered in dirt and spoke like an actor reciting his lines but he made one mistake.
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Henry Arias, who never spoke in class, recited his lines almost flawlessly from memory.
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Dinah began to recite the lines from Cymbeline.
list
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Don't do it automatically, as though you were reciting a shopping list .
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And then recite a list of all the things she resented.
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He recited a list of biblical names at high speed into the machine, expecting it to stumble and clear its throat.
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She then proceeded to recite a bitter list of all the failed marriages which we had in our midst or knew of.
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But he was reciting a list of my premolars and incisors and showed no interest.
mantra
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John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath.
pledge
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Furthermore, unless all students are required to recite the Pledge , there is no violation of the free exercise clause either.
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Feeley, who had not seen the inside of a church in over thirty years, started reciting the pledge of allegiance.
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The court considered it important that individual students were not compelled to recite the Pledge .
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When school officials insisted on their reciting the official pledge , the students went to court.
poem
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O'Lone recited a poem about a little house with roses at the gate and a bird in the tree that went tra-la-la.
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Suppose you were required, as a child, to recite a poem in front of your class.
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She recited a poem to him that was well-known in the district.
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She had a circle of people around her, listening to her reciting a poem !
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Unfortunately, Petherbridge rather undermines this theory by reciting his own atrociously-rhymed poem .
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As luck has it, the school where Evita began reciting poems in the sixth grade is just across the street.
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He came because he could recite poems , particularly Rudyard Kipling, and at great length.
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She knew the origin of every obscure couplet imaginable, and could usually recite the whole poem which went with it.
prayer
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One recollection of Leonard's concerns his reciting a prayer at Synagogue, which he got wrong.
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The rabbi bowed as low as if he were reciting the Modim Anakhnu prayer in the synagogue.
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He can even recite a prayer in the language of the Sioux, albeit with a Wiltshire accent.
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All over the city, all over Ireland, now, people would be pausing to recite a prayer .
rosary
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She said the best part is teaching people the significance and power of reciting the rosary .
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Three elderly nuns are on a bench in front of them; they are reciting the rosary .
verse
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Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones, composing new ones.
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A more expensive model recites a different Koranic verse at each hour.
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I would like the Imam Sahib to recite the opening verses of the Koran.
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They recite the verse earnestly and proudly.
word
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Tikhon knows the passage by heart and recites it word for word.
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I repeated the prayer again and again, I recited the words obsessively all through the rainy afternoon and into the night.
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She went to the door and he recited the words until she had gone out and shut the door behind her.
■ VERB
begin
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He began to recite an act of resignation to the Divine Will.
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As luck has it, the school where Evita began reciting poems in the sixth grade is just across the street.
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Felix's wife began to recite her poetry, and wondered about his air fare, and gave him some coffee.
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Then, as I often did when I was alone at sea, I began to recite Shakespeare.
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Dinah began to recite the lines from Cymbeline.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Detective Clark recited the facts of the case.
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Each student had to recite a poem.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After taking away our tablets, he made us recite what we had written.
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All the while her father was reciting, her lips moved silently.
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Buerger said she can recite phrases from the film.
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Felix's wife began to recite her poetry, and wondered about his air fare, and gave him some coffee.
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He can even recite a prayer in the language of the Sioux, albeit with a Wiltshire accent.
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The court considered it important that individual students were not compelled to recite the Pledge.
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This may seem meaningless to non-churchgoers and trivial to churchgoers since it is part of the Athanasian Creed recited every Sunday.