Example sentences for: anecdotes

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

  • This scandal did produce one of my favorite anecdotes of 1999.

  • And anecdotes usually don't show the reasons for a situation, and thus are of limited value in suggesting solutions.

  • The high-dudgeon Vidal offers personal anecdotes (Abigail Thernstrom, at a dinner party, defended the police in the Rodney King beating) and rehashes familiar arguments for affirmative action.

  • Reagan points at sights outside the window and tries to remember irrelevant anecdotes about Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher.

  • Through verbal performances, joking, and narrating humorous anecdotes, an individual can suspend elements of gravity, snobbery, or socially imposed acceptable conduct.


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