Sentence examples for recited work from inspiring English sources

With an open book in one hand, the other clutched to her chest, she recited work from memory.

At the height of his career, Yevgeny Yevtushenko packed crowds of 50,000 people into stadiums where he recited work like "Babi Yar," a poem on the Holocaust.

Poets have turned into performers, reciting work that can be adamantly political, deeply personal, funny and unflinching, often in quick succession.

In addition to their jazzy riffs on perennial Christmas classics, Elling will come center stage to recite work by the 13th century Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi.

Pliny also left a detailed picture of the amateur literary world with its custom of reciting works to seek critical revision from friends.

On Saturday, inside a darkened theater on Lafayette Street, the drivers recited their work as a roomful of the city's literary class observed.

The audience listened raptly every time the poet Paul Zarzyski from Great Falls, Mont., recited his work, including his poem "Staircase": Like two helpless sailors marooned with age and mourning a familiar orca beached in the storm's debris, we crutch our feeble human frames beneath the horse's weight and heave each time he tries.

The place was a haven for poets, who rose and recited their work tableside.

He referenced the almost timeless kavi sammelans -- a gathering of poets -- where one bard recited his work and another, responded to it, often on the spot entirely.

In 2010, the 37-year-old poet recited his work "Tunisian Jasmine," which expressed solidarity with pro-democracy protests, before a small private audience at his home in Egypt.

In fifth grade, he won an oratorical contest reciting work by the poet Langston Hughes.