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Anecdote
"Anecdote" in a Sentence (15 examples)
He began his lecture with a humorous anecdote.
The plural of anecdote is data.
She is more influenced by personal anecdote than I.
I was very influenced by that anecdote.
Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote, is essentially a plane surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
If you'll pardon my digression, I'd like to relate a little anecdote that will help me to prove my point.
I hope you're not going to tell another anecdote about Masha.
What an interesting anecdote you just told me!
According to an anecdote, a Hungarian ornithologist was invited to give a lecture on his field in East Germany, and a Hungarian student who studied there was asked to interpret. The lecture started, the first picture was shown, with the following words: "This is a hoopoe with perching legs and a double-feathered crest that can be made erect or decumbent.” The explanation was followed by an awkward silence and after long, painful minutes, the interpreter started to speak: “Vogel!” (bird).
Do you remember the anecdote the captain told yesterday afternoon?
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tell an anecdote
relate a short anecdote
Like all travellers, he is full of anecdote, and has at his command the rarest news of the time. […] Generous, convivial, and full of anecdote, the mercantile agent is a good companion, and his conversation never fails to make glad and jocund the society of that otherwise dullest of places, an English stage coach.
They were all men of the same set, knowing one another intimately, and knowing the same people; so they fell to talking and anecdoting in such pleasant wise that dinner-time approached […]
Bob anecdoted the circus he and Jimmy had seen that afternoon.
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