Example sentences for: anecdotes

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

  • Rather, identifying or pointing out agringado behavior tends to be done by family or peer group members, who use teasing, joking, and narrating exemplary anecdotes characteristic of folkloric behavior.

  • The following account of Mr. John Coutts and his family were [sic] communicated by the earl of Dundonald to the editor of the Morning Post, in refutation of anecdotes published in a pamphlet, entitled “Life of Thomas Coutts,” &c.

  • The right-wing polemicist's biography is accused of idolizing the Gipper and lacking "intellectual honesty" (Claude Marx, the Washington Post Book World ). In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Berke says the book retells hackneyed anecdotes and is not "particularly revealing about what drove him."

  • (Pollak questions whether Bettelheim could have sampled as many prisoners as he said he had, and judges his anecdotes to be selective and willfully misinterpreted.)

  • Dunn as she gives cheerful, happy-talk advice about how to use anecdotes to show voters that you care about people and not just policy.


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