Sentence examples for he was memorizing from inspiring English sources

"He was memorizing and singing baby songs at 16 or 17 months old," said Mrs. Colón, who would later sign up her son for voice and dance lessons.

At 2 1/2 he was memorizing books.

"The Kraut, caviar, and champagne," Hemingway said slowly, as though he were memorizing a difficult set of military orders.

He likes the movie so much that he's memorized it.

The walk home takes a half-hour, and Lionel can't stop chattering about all the facts he's memorized about New York City buses and trains.

But he's memorized the Roy Cohn playbook, and in his first Cabinet meeting, on Monday, he consulted a page from it: the one on ritualized flattery.

The book-club women get into a conversation about a story that Daniel has read, Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain," and which he's memorized.

Thanks to the thousands of alphagrams he's memorized, he would realize immediately that there are four anagrams in the first rack (antlers, rentals, saltern, sternal) and none in the second.

And he is learning to add occasional flourishes to his act: tapping out the grueling solo to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" while he looks at the ceiling, or holding his guitar controller behind his back, just to prove he's memorized it.

And he scoffed at Mr. Gore's well-known attention to the fine points of policy, saying dismissively one day, "I think if he's memorized the budget, I'd kind of wonder out loud about how he spends his time".

Abu Amar doesn't need to look it up; he's memorized most of the bus connections.