Sentence examples for were to recite from inspiring English sources

If you were to recite even a single page in the open air, birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop dead".

For weeks we had been rehearsing The Owl and the Pussycat, which we were to recite in unison during the service.

One of his first calls after being freed was to recite the letter to Diane Foley.

Between songs, Denzel Washington, Queen Latifah, Jamie Foxx and Martin Luther King III are to recite what are billed as "historical passages".

All they had to do was to recite an "Our Father" and a "Hail Mary" as penance for their sins.

So far, the response of administrators has been to recite cliches from long-ago commerce and business degrees.

His own approach, he said, is to recite motivational speeches made by Vince Lombardi, the Green Bay Packers' coach.

His crime was to recite a nationalist poem which Turkey's judges, prodded by the ever-vigilant generals, deemed an incitement to Islamic rebellion.

All that's required is to recite the brief Islamic creed — there is no god but God, and Muhammad is His prophet — with genuine intention.

A voice commands him to leave the temple to play for the voice's master, for whom he is to recite the long saga of the slain clan.

Characters are as apt to quote Marx and the New Testament as they are to recite lyrics by Jane's Addiction, whose song "Three Days" is prominently featured.