Example sentences for: retold

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

  • Anecdotes are retailed in pieces and retold in interviews; the same citations crop up again and again; I lost count of how many times Barthelme attests to his debt to Beckett and explains that his writing not resembling Beckett's is a paradoxical measure of his thrall.

  • The Chicano community’s cultural belief system is inherent in the narrative, otherwise the legend would not be recited and retold, again and again.

  • Dole rarely fished for sympathy when he retold the tale of his battle injury, leavening the reference by saying it won him a "bedpan promotion" to captain.


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