NARRATE in a Sentence

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130 example sentences for NARRATE, such as:

1. The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
2. He has recorded the narration for the production.
3. The manager at once began to narrate what he knew.
4. Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts.
5. His trip through the world made an interesting narrative.

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narrate
 v.  to give an account or tell the story of
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1  But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVII
2  It made a great impression on me, and I remembered it a long time afterwards; as I shall have occasion to narrate when the time comes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
3  After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
4  Whilst I am detailing bloody deeds which took place during my stay on Colonel Lloyd's plantation, I will briefly narrate another, which occurred about the same time as the murder of Demby by Mr. Gore.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  He had been a pioneer in California, and could narrate many a strange tale of fortunes made and fortunes lost in those wild, halcyon days.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
6  In the event of your acceding to my request it is probable that I shall have to narrate them to you.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
7  I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it one of these days.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
8  Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC
9  I need not narrate in detail the further struggles I had, and arguments I used, to get matters regarding the legacy settled as I wished.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  The manager at once began to narrate what he knew.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
11  Rance sat down on the horsehair sofa, and knitted his brows as though determined not to omit anything in his narrative.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
12  So thrilling had the man's narrative been, and his manner was so impressive that we had sat silent and absorbed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
13  Go then, and first read the narrative which Lanyon warned me he was to place in your hands; and if you care to hear more, turn to the confession of.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
14  Nor must I delay too long to bring my writing to an end; for if my narrative has hitherto escaped destruction, it has been by a combination of great prudence and great good luck.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
15  For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  My cousins, full of exhilaration, were so eloquent in narrative and comment, that their fluency covered him.
2  Plus, a narrative bibliography is included to provide a discussion of the professional literature and topics covered in the book.
3  The reason I tried to write it in narrative, is I found this to be much more honest way to present the facts of this story.
4  The story starts off as a disaster narrative, as most of humanity gets wiped out by a flu virus and the few survivors begin to cluster together.
5  The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
6  The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.
7  His trip through the world made an interesting narrative.
8  The book is written in the style of first-person narrative.
9  It's time to stop tip-toeing around my past, time to stop living a life of opprobrium, and time to take back my narrative.
10  The point here is that institutions define the discourses and narratives through which aesthetic experience is received.
11  Its story-within-a-story method of narration is confusing.
12  He has recorded the narration for the production.
13  Rochester has been favored with the most lively and the most continuous? The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
14  The entire film, filmed in a single unbroken Steadicam take, consists of an unnamed narrator wandering through the rooms of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, where 300 years of Russian history are being acted out by a cast of thousands.
15  Myth narrates a sacred history; it relates an event that took place in primordial time, the fabulous time of the beginnings.