RELATE in a Sentence

Learn RELATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for RELATE, such as:
1. No one can relate to me.
2. I don't understand how the two ideas relate.
3. Laurie finds it difficult to relate to children.
4. It is difficult to relate his argument to the facts.
5. This time he had decided to relate all that had passed.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RELATE
relate
 v.  give an account of
 v.  be in a relationship with
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She likewise accepted her proposal, and engaged all the passengers, one after the other, to relate their adventures; and then both she and Candide allowed that the old woman was in the right.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIII
2  And then the pleasure of talking of that which he loved induced him to relate, according to his custom, part of his adventures with the fair Westphalian.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
3  We relate those of which we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at the same moment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
4  Marius then told him what it had not before occurred to him to relate, that he was the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA
5  The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time and space.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
7  There occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU
8  This time he had decided to relate all that had passed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
9  I will see the queen; I will relate to her the details of the disappearance of this poor woman, of which she is no doubt ignorant.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
10  My drunkenness is always sad, and when I am thoroughly drunk my mania is to relate all the lugubrious stories which my foolish nurse inculcated into my brain.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 28 THE RETURN
11  She had had for an instant an inclination to be reconducted to the cardinal, and relate everything to him; but a revelation on her part would bring about a revelation on the part of Athos.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 45 A CONJUGAL SCENE
12  I revolved these circumstances in my mind and determined thenceforth to apply myself more particularly to those branches of natural philosophy which relate to physiology.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  I will not attempt to console you; but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
15  We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.
2  It is difficult to relate his argument to the facts.
3  I don't understand how the two ideas relate.
4  I found a very mixed group of individuals some of whom I could relate to and others with whom I had very little in common.
5  Researchers are trying to relate low exam results and/to/with large class sizes.
6  Other recommendations relate to the details of how such data is stored.
7  The issues raised in the report relate directly to the ongoing work of the charity.
8  His remarks didn't relate to the topic under discussion.
9  The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
10  The professor told his students to relate theory with practice.
11  I found it difficult to relate the two ideas in my mind.
12  No one can relate to me.
13  Our findings relate to physically rather than the visually handicapped pupils.
14  Attempts to relate studies on animals to those on humans are not really comparing like with like.
15  Laurie finds it difficult to relate to children.