learn by rote
Example Sentences
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A lot of players learn by rote so that things eventually become automatically - that's difficult to do in a short space of time unless you have the natural talent.
From BBC • May 10, 2017
Instead, teachers drum into students a ton of stuff they must learn by rote so as to jump through hoops leading up to the all-important university entrance examination.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2012
They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since love has led me to the field, The soldier's phrase I'll learn by rote; I'll talk of drums, of sword and shield, And quite forget my petticoat.
From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by Colman, George
And there is also an ode, which we had to learn by rote, and begins with the lines-- 'Sun, thou sinkest, Sun, thou sinkest, Sink in peace then, oh, thou sun!'
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
