Example sentences for: anecdote

How can you use “anecdote” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In their entry for slegs only the authors quote an amusing anecdote in this regard:

  • But is there any doubt that this anecdote and that photograph also come from a book on Will's desk?

  • The challenge for evaluators is how to use those aspects of an anecdote that are effective for our work-the immediacy, the convincingness, the attention-getting quality-and, at the same time, fulfill other informational requirements for our jobs, such as generalizability and reliability.

  • In short, he overlooks systematic, statistically verifiable inequalities between black and white, poor and affluent, non-elite and elite college students in favor of a favorite "culture of poverty" anecdote.

  • A WP business section story claiming that Bill Gates has been deeply stung by the accusations against him and his company opens with an anecdote that's evidently supposed to humanize him but which will probably have the opposite effect.


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