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Example sentences for: anecdote

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What they are not, however, is generalizable: that is, an anecdote doesn't tell whether it is the only such instance or whether the problem is wide-spread.
Thernstrom's anecdote about how Powell became brigadier general is ambiguous on its face.
Fill in the blank as Donald Gregg, a former American ambassador to South Korea, comments on some recently declassified documents by offering this personal anecdote: "My residence had just been broken into by six students angry about beef quotas.
But in general, Sylvia Jukes Morris has an excellent eye for the telling anecdote, and with the help of Luce's tattletale diaries, she has unearthed one after another.
By the time they turn in for the night they have already forgotten Parry, the awkward young hiker who had wanted Joe to pray with him over Logan's shattered body: He has been relegated to an anecdote and dismissed.