RECITAL in a Sentence

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The bridegroom, who during this recital had grown deadly pale, up and tried to escape, but the guests seized him and held him fast.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECITAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
recital
 n.  detailed account or description of something
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  The bridegroom, who during this recital had grown deadly pale, up and tried to escape, but the guests seized him and held him fast.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
2  His recital finished, the abbe reflected long and earnestly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
3  The worthy shipowner knew, from Penelon's recital, of the captain's brave conduct during the storm, and tried to console him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
4  You will describe it to me," replied Franz, "and the recital from your lips will make as great an impression on me as if I had witnessed it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
5  All this was achieved in much less time than is occupied in the recital.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays.
6  Madame Danglars had listened to this recital with a sigh, a tear, or a shriek for every detail.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
7  But Valentine was so weak that this recital scarcely produced the same effect it would have done had she been in her usual state of health.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 100. The Apparition.
8  A last word, before we enter on the recital.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
9  May we be permitted to recur, for the sake of clearness in the recital, to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of Waterloo.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
10  Milady listened with the greatest attention, and yet it was easily to be perceived, whatever effort she made to conceal her impressions, that this recital was not agreeable to her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
11  This recital was for him the occasion of veritable triumph.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
12  Milady saw at a single glance all the painful feelings she inspired in Felton by dwelling on every detail of her recital; but she would not spare him a single pang.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
13  Felton leaned for support upon a piece of furniture; and Milady saw, with the joy of a demon, that his strength would fail him perhaps before the end of her recital.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
14  After a moment of silence employed by Milady in observing the young man who listened to her, Milady continued her recital.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
15  To cover his embarrassment at being caught by Scarlett, he plunged hastily into a recital of news.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  The pianist gave a long and varied recital, with a couple of encores for good measure.
2  I went to a violin recital today.
3  He was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings.
4  He recited the poem to the class.
5  The poet recited some of her recent poems.
6  The Mayor recited to the Queen a long and tedious speech of welcome.
7  He recited the passage by rote and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.
8  Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don't feel properly reverent.
9  However, they worried through, and each got his reward -- in small blue tickets, each with a passage of Scripture on it; each blue ticket was pay for two verses of the recitation.