Sentence examples for reciting over from inspiring English sources

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Haji Abdul Rahim, the ruddy, bright-eyed owner of the compound, turned out to be a Koranic healer: in exchange for livestock, he treated illnesses and injuries by reciting over them appropriate passages from the Muslim holy book.

In the second trial, Ms. Moran, playing a witness, lounges on the bed reciting over and over some incantatory words written by Ms. Childs, a riff about finding herself in a "prematurely air-conditioned supermarket" and seeing colored bathing caps.

Stylistically, the very idea of reciting over an instrumental backing track, which Buster was a pioneer of, became the basis of hip-hop years later when the Jamaican DJ Cool Herc introduced it to the Bronx.

My mother died at 9 35 on July 4th, as I stroked her cheek with my arms around her, and repeated the litany of love that we had been reciting over the last 36 hours.

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It's been written about, discussed, debated, blogged, rued, lamented, cited, and recited, over and over again for months.

I came to realize that this mantra the church elders were making impressionable youngsters recite over and over again throughout their lives was little more than brainwashing kids into an irrational faith in imaginary forces.

The script that Naufahu's offending followed is also one that we've seen recited over and over again in the past few weeks: he used acting classes as a camouflage for his advances, telling women they needed to participate in increasingly explicit sexual behaviour to improve their acting.

This often means reading and reciting them over and over again until they are memorized.

After all, in Monday's session, I felt like I was explaining the nuances of the Mexican food I miss so badly, and here I was reduced to reciting my name over and over again and inquiring after the well-being of a table full of confused strangers.

A gameplan has always been his prompt, not something to recite over and over.

Special blessings are recited over the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs (maror), after which the main courses are served.

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