Example sentences for: anecdotes

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

  • has a sprinkling of amusing anecdotes, this being one of my favorities:

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

  • The Third Wave feminist's third book--part memoir, part sociology, part political tract--gets praised for its lyrically rendered anecdotes and slammed for shoddy thinking.

  • Whether it be the drowning (possibly suicide) of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the Starnberger See or the treatment of James Norris in Bethlehem Lunatic Asylum in 1814, Pennington has an almost endless supply of anecdotes to provide peripheral colour to his main narrative.

  • Through features such as "Frame Game" (see William Saletan's analysis of the dismissal of the Paula Jones lawsuit), we hope to provide a deeper understanding than a conventional news summary would enable, but without the time-wasting encrustation of quotations and anecdotes that clogs the typical newspaper or magazine story.


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