reciter

Example Sentences

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It began with Childs, who was dancer, choreographer and reciter in Glass’ “Einstein on the Beach,” sharing excerpts from that seminal Glass/Wilson music theater masterpiece.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Most Muslims follow a tradition of having a reciter read the entire Koran to the community during Ramadan, one part per night.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2021

That Joe Biden — institutionalist 70-something, incorrigible square, inexhaustible reciter of Irish poetry.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2020

Showing the face of the reciter doesn’t quite seem to rise to the level of “necessary.”

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2017

She listened, therefore, with unspeakable eagerness to this reciter, who detailed to her, as the occasion suggested, the progress of action and opinion on the theatre of France and Poland.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden