Use "rote" in a sentence

1. I know the name of the village by rote, but couldn't find it if I had to

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2. extreme shock, Helen repeated over and over again by rote the

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3. The learning by rote

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4. He played them by rote, but with feeling

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5. Alternatively, the dream means that you are stuck in a routine where you are doing things by rote

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6. In fact, an introspective child may have a better understanding (or comprehension) of words than a child who simply sight reads, or spouts off multiplication tables by rote memory

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7. Out of the hundreds that queued at hatch 22 she knew all their times by rote

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8. We continue, even, now, to hear too much, way too much, about the emphasis on critical thinking as opposed to the rote memorization for secondary school students

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9. “It was the path you set me on as a child,” she responded evenly, reciting her words as if by rote

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10. To this purpose, God must be expunged from the public consciousness lest His presence confound the prescribed arrangements of mechanical processes where two plus two may not necessarily add up to four nor does it have to provided such dubious calculations preserve the implausible standards of an unthinking individual who has been summarily reduced to rote

11. An animal is conditioned by rote to

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12. As if it were rote, custom, and legend that was passed on from generation to generation

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13. Michael drove from the motel to his house by rote since his mental

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14. I wrote on the wet earth with my finger the important points of the story and rote them

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15. And when I went home hurriedly so that my rote memory did not betray me

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16. Her body concealed the view of the television, but Philip could hear the faint voices of soap opera actors reciting their lines as if by rote

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17. In the meantime, you continue to say the name of the negative image until it becomes rote

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18. a rote prayer does not save a person

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19. The main idea here is to reduce personal creativity and contain students by having them repeat by rote lessons taught by their teachers

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20. those questions by gaze rather than rote memory

21. The low tones were unaccented and flat, as of a person reading by rote, without interest, but the matter was such that I was horrified

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22. mandating standards that are rote memory- and textbook-driven

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23. well—to a state of irrelevance in the face of rote learning and

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24. Rote drills, boredom, a constant authoritarian presence looking over his shoulder - all of it a carefully choreographed act to make him want to become the star of the arena

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25. Learning the rules of grammar by rote memory

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26. Before that, I had only prayed after the mimicry oblique rote manner

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27. Learning is a relationship with the unknown, not a disciplined behavior for rote memorization

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28. A rote, unreflected, and uncritical mastery of an act makes us oblivious to its frame, trapped by the nature of the game and unable to transcend the language rules we are embedded in

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29. If we minimally did this, it would free in-class teachers to mentor the students in thinking and cooperating, not rote replication and competition

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30. For where is the freedom in Randergarten rote repetition, and the justice in demanding allegiance without conscience? A unity of thought by fear of retribution is fascistic

31. "Tussie isn't well," she said the moment Priscilla appeared, fixing her eyes on her face but looking as though she hardly saw her, as though she saw past her, through her, to something beyond, while she said a lesson learned by rote

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32. In fact ever since they had been in the picturesque valley he had gone through each day, not unhappily, but almost by rote

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33. I use some rote playing to hold a pupil's interest and develop

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34. rote playing to the exclusion of note reading is bound to fail

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35. Sometimes he forgot why he prayed, simply reciting from rote memory the words to some almost forgotten prayer

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36. Bush was speaking by rote

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37. Most of us hate setting into routines or doing things by rote

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38. Dutifully the still chattering throng broke off their conversations to mutely turn forward as if in rote response to the excited yelling of the worship leader echoing out of the sanctuary on the too loudly set speaker system

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39. That was almost by rote the same excuse given by Nazi death camp guards

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40. This, then, being the case, let not these scrupulous and prudish ideas trouble your imagination, but be assured that Lothario prizes you as you do him, and rest content and satisfied that as you are caught in the noose of love it is one of worth and merit that has taken you, and one that has not only the four S's that they say true lovers ought to have, but a complete alphabet; only listen to me and you will see how I can repeat it by rote

41. I flew on the instant to his relief, and using the rote of practice I had

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42. At first Werner worries they’re taking him downstairs—please, not another pit—but he is brought to the third floor, where an exhausted interpreter who has been booking German prisoners for a month notes his name and rank, then asks a few rote questions while the clerk rifles through Werner’s canvas duffel and hands it back

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43. I was scarce, however, well warm in my new abode, when going out one morning pretty early to enjoy the freshness of it, in the pleasing outlet of the fields, accompanied only by a maid, whom I had newly hired, as we were carelessly walking among the trees, we were alarmed with the noise of a violent coughing: turning our heads towards which, we distinguished a plain well dressed elderly gentleman, who, attacked with a sudden fit, was so much overcome, as to be forced to give way to it and sit down at the foot of a tree, where he seemed suffocating with the severity of it, being perfectly black in the face; not less moved than frightened with which, I flew on the instant to his relief, and using the rote of practice I had observed on the like occasion, I loosened his cravat and clapped him on the back; but whether to any purpose, or whether the cough had had its

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44. He was also fortunate that despite the rote nature of their training, the supernatural explanation of physical processes, and the total absence of the sort of medical technology the Federation—or even pre-space Old Earth—had taken for granted, Pasqualate surgeons were very good

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45. And as he looked at the unpracticed mouth and lips, he thought that such a daughter of the soil could only have caught up the sentiment by rote

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46. But with Amy, it had been still, rote

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47. Again, we see that the line of least resistance is not necessarily a rote technical concept relating to stocks breaking out to new highs, but also one of having all the conditions in place to raise the odds of success

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48. This part was all rote by now

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49. They said it back, mostly by rote, and watched him depart, drawing his High Garda escort along with him

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50. Four years of my life were spent in the muck of rote seduction

51. "I don't learn them by rote, Mum

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52. It's by no means a universal approach, but the selling process can be one of the more rote disciplines investors follow: “If X, then we sell

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53. By all the others it was mentioned with regret; and his merits honoured with due gradation of feeling, from the sincerity of Edmund’s too partial regard, to the unconcern of his mother speaking entirely by rote

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54. By all the others it was mentioned with regret; and his merits honoured with due gradation of feeling—from the sincerity of Edmund's too partial regard, to the unconcern of his mother speaking entirely by rote

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55. As in repeating a well-known song, so in instincts, one action follows another by a sort of rhythm; if a person be interrupted in a song, or in repeating anything by rote, he is generally forced to go back to recover the habitual train of thought: so P

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56. Recall the speeches I have learned by rote;

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57. Petersburg, to convict and punish the evil-doers of the commissariat,—when in all the cities dinners with speeches were given to the heroes of Sevastopol, and when to them, with arms and legs torn off, toasts were drunk, on meeting them on the bridges and on the highways; that time, when oratorical talents developed so rapidly in the nation that a certain dram-shopkeeper everywhere and upon all occasions wrote and printed and recited by rote at dinners such strong speeches, that the guardians of the peace had to take repressive measures against the dram-shopkeeper's eloquence,—when in the very English club a special room was set aside for the discussion of public matters,—when periodicals sprang up under the most diversified standards,—periodicals that evolved European principles on a European basis, but with a Russian world conception, and periodicals on an exclusively Russian basis, but with a European world conception,—when suddenly there appeared so many periodicals that all names seemed to be exhausted,—"The Messenger," and "The Word," and "The Speaker," and "The Observer," and "The Star," and "The Eagle," and many more, and, in spite of it, there appeared ever new names; that time, when the constellation of philosophic writers made its appearance to prove that science was national, and not national, and non-national, and so forth, and the constellation of artistic writers, who described a grove, and the sunrise, and a storm, and the love of a Russian maiden, and the indolence of a certain official, and the bad conduct of many officials; that time, when on all sides appeared questions (as in the year '56 they called every concourse of circumstances, of which no one could make any sense), questions of cadet corps, universities, censorship, oral judicature, finance, banking, police, emancipation, and many more:—everybody tried to discover ever new questions, everybody tried to solve them, wrote, read, spoke, made projects, wanted to mend everything, destroy, change, and all Russians, like one man, were in indescribable ecstasy

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58. The pedagogue of the ancient school, which for briefness' sake I shall call the church school, knows firmly and absolutely that he must teach from the prayer-book and the psalter by making the children learn by rote, and he admits no alterations in his methods; in the same manner the teacher of the new, the German, school knows firmly and absolutely that he must teach according to Bunákov and Evtushévski, begin with the words "whisker" and "wasp," ask what is up and what down, and tell about the favourite suslik, and he admits no alterations in his method

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59. "The charge against you is that, having come to the Hotel Mauritania with the key to Smelkoff's trunk, you stole therefrom money and a ring," he said, like one repeating a lesson learned by rote, and leaning his ear to the associate sitting on his left, who said that he noticed that the phial mentioned in the list of exhibits was missing

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60. I have passed half a century among the Russian masses, and among the great majority of the real Russian people I have in all that time never seen or heard even once any manifestation or expression of this sentiment of patriotism, if we do not count those patriotic phrases, which are learned by rote during military service or are repeated from books by the most frivolous and spoiled men of the nation

61. Oh the long days (the hot days of summer, and the cold days of winter), when we had to sit for hours on hard wooden benches, before uncomfortable desks, bending over grimy slates and ink-besprinkled "copy books," and poring over studies in which we took no interest—geography, which we learned by rote; arithmetic, which always evaded us, and grammar, which we never could master

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