Sentence examples for reciting back from inspiring English sources

He compared the students with ones they had recently seen at the Thurgood Marshall Academy in Harlem, where he found a higher proportion of promising candidates adept at reciting back what they heard.

The stern elders relent, and Keats and Fanny spend much time together — kissing and canoodling like any other young pair but also reciting, back and forth, some of Keats's poetry, almost as if it were the stuff of everyday conversation.

A second session was spent reciting back what she heard and delving deeper, and a third session focused on refining the narrative, ensuring it was authentic, and helping each person get comfortable telling their story.

On her first try, she recited back eight of the ten words on Mullen's list.

I got it," the waiter says, then proceeds to recite back the orders so far — all wrong.

"I got it," he insists, referring to the customers' orders, which he recites back twice — wrong each time.

In the interview, they can pore over this cheat-sheet, recite back to you what you've written and generally waste everybody's time.

She held her glass in one hand and her phone in the other, listening hard through the restaurant noise as the girl at the florist's recited back her AmEx number.

The other bit is from Housman, and though it's from a poem that Christopher and I recited back and forth at each other across the tables at Café Milano, I hesitate to quote it here.

When asked about him, several voters eagerly recited back his biography, and appeared particularly impressed that he speaks Spanish, learned during his year spent as a Catholic missionary in Honduras.

Mr. Quilici added that Quack.com planned to forge agreements with wireless manufacturers that would allow a consumer to call the service with a request and have any lengthy information sent as a text message to a wireless phone, instead of hearing it recited back.