Example sentences for: retelling

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

  • A word of warning to those desperately seeking non-holiday fare: Although there's not an Xmas tree or menorah in sight, steer clear of NBC's retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest (Sun.

  • More Mailer bashing: In the Washington Post , Steven Moore says that Norman Mailer's retelling of Jesus' life reads "like a simplified novelization [of the gospels] for grade-school children."

  • McCain got to tour the TV studios retelling his heroic saga.

  • This retelling of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita from the point of view of the young girl has taken quite a beating.

  • The scrambled space opera The Fifth Element has all the fervor but none of the charm; it would probably improve in a 10-year-old's retelling.


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