Memorizing

Taro concentrated on memorizing English words.

She got full marks by memorizing the whole lesson.

Tom is really good at memorizing songs.

Tom is memorizing a poem.

I am memorizing a text.

I am memorizing the national anthem.

Why are you memorizing this poem?

Lenin learned German from books--in prison--"breaking the back of the language at the outset" by memorizing all the nouns. He was incensed when no-one in Germany could understand him.

Many people think that being an actor is simply memorizing lines.

One can cure oneself of the "not un-" formation by memorizing this sentence: "A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field."

Various teachers have announced that passages from the classics were to be committed to memory in their schools; but Ruthardt rejects the matter and the manner of these former memorizings.