by heart

ADVERB
  1. by committing to memory
    she knew the poem by heart
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How To Use by heart In A Sentence

  • Two people were asked to perform one song each before Dr. King's closing remarks: the brilliant opera singer Marian Anderson, who did "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," and Mahalia Jackson, the glorious gospel legend, who came outwearing a grand, flower-covered hat and sang this soaring a cappella version of the old slave spiritual "I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned" (a song Dylan and I both knew because it was on Odetta's first album, a record each of us had learned by heart as soon as it was released). Stand And Be Counted
  • I like the way they play by heart, the open polo they play, and the way they ride on horseback.
  • But we have this consolation, -- that we have creed-articles which we can get by heart, though ignorant of what they mean, and under what these philosophers call a "regulative" religion repeat our paternosters to the end of time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
  • A friend is a gift, whose worth cannot be measured except by heart.
  • The poems were never published, but they circulated widely and, as one officer said at the time, ‘there was scarcely a more or less literate ensign in the army who did not know them by heart.’
  • The crew recites the dialogue by heart and mimics the actors without an ounce of embarrassment.
  • In his Persecution and the Art of Writing, which I am assuming Professor Weinberger knows almost by heart, Leo Strauss made the surprisingly unesoteric observation that the best way to avoid the wrath of the censor is to present an apparently balanced debate in which the views of the side disliked by the censor are given a "straight" denunciation. Free and Easy
  • You should learn these words by heart.
  • She knew all his poems by heart, took the strass for diamonds and welcomed the chance of introducing her brilliant son to the Irish Nationalist Members and other pinchbeck celebrities who flocked about her. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
  • He was instrumental in defining the European musical canon, what we now think of as the standard repertoire, which he had most of by heart.
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