ANECDOTE in a Sentence
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33 example sentences for ANECDOTE, such as:
1. I've been using this anecdote to amuse my civilian friends for years!
2. The lecturer told a few jokes and anecdotes to add color to his talk.
3. The anecdote was in such execrable taste that it revolted the audience.
4. My father was a gifted raconteur with an unlimited supply of anecdotes.
5. He was a popular guest because his droll anecdotes were always entertaining.
2. The lecturer told a few jokes and anecdotes to add color to his talk.
3. The anecdote was in such execrable taste that it revolted the audience.
4. My father was a gifted raconteur with an unlimited supply of anecdotes.
5. He was a popular guest because his droll anecdotes were always entertaining.
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Meanings and Examples of ANECDOTE
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anecdote
n. short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 Victor had grown hilarious, and was attempting to tell an anecdote about a Mexican girl who served chocolate one winter in a restaurant in Dauphine Street.
2 Justice, too, obliges the author to state that the fairness of mind and generosity attributed to St. Clare are not without a parallel, as the following anecdote will show.
3 An anecdote was on the tip of her tongue, about a public lavatory built to celebrate the same occasion, and how the Mayor.
4 This led him to Paganini, and we sat for an hour over a bottle of claret while he told me anecdote after anecdote of that extraordinary man.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
5 After the anecdote the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and where.
6 Magnitski, addressing himself to Speranski, was relating an anecdote, and Speranski was laughing in advance at what Magnitski was going to say.
7 They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.
8 I find that the most effective medicine for such individuals is administered at first in the form of a story, although I never tell an anecdote simply for the sake of telling one.
9 In particular did Khlobuev expand, and wax full of civility and friendliness, and scatter witticisms and anecdotes to right and left.
10 Porfiry Platonovitch made his appearance and told various anecdotes; he had just come back from the town.
11 At dinner the conversation did not cease for a moment and seemed to consist of the contents of a book of funny anecdotes.
12 Most of the anecdotes, if not relating to the state service, related to people in the service.
13 And as usual when speaking of Pierre, she began to tell anecdotes of his absent-mindedness, some of which had even been invented about him.
14 Even for his classroom he had no platitudes, no stock of professorial anecdotes.
15 Every lawyer learns over and over how strong a motive hate can be, but in my collection of legal anecdotes I had nothing to match this one.
Example Sentence:
1 I've been using this anecdote to amuse my civilian friends for years!
2 Of all the millions who are moved by this historic occasion, while I am amongst these, my anecdote is and would be far less remarkable.
3 The anecdote was in such execrable taste that it revolted the audience.
4 He was a popular guest because his droll anecdotes were always entertaining.
5 My father was a gifted raconteur with an unlimited supply of anecdotes.
6 A born storyteller, my father loved to recount anecdotes about his early years in New York.
7 Leavening his decisions with humorous, down-to-earth anecdotes, Judge Walker was not at all the pedantic legal scholar.
8 The lecturer told a few jokes and anecdotes to add color to his talk.
9 He was telling interesting anecdotes about growing up in the neighborhood and the park.
10 Tindell grabbed his Philosophy Epistle File, quotes and anecdotes he'd been collecting since high school, and headed to Houston.
11 Below I will investigate the reasons why anecdotal evidence is unreliable and unacceptable evidence of scientific claims.