Use "anecdote" in a sentence

1. Then she told her an anecdote George had related to her long ago: “In ancient times there once was a lover of dragons

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2. was sharing a humorous anecdote with me

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3. It was all calculated speculation on his part and in some ways he wanted to shock Sarah with his anecdote

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4. Many acquaintances of my father supposed this anecdote to be authentic, taking pleasure in the thought of turning those they had mutilated in the war

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5. Apart from this anecdote, though, I know little else about the picodust's origins

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6. anecdote or witticism has already been communicated to the audience

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7. covered by another presenter in the overall line up or indeed that your anecdote or

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8. 11 Keeping all of these things in mind, I wasn’t too surprised to hear an anecdote that probably sums up Pops’s personality

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9. Steve Forbes, a friend of mine, whose father, Malcolm, was a friend of my father’s, published in Forbes magazine last year an anecdote passed along to him by the former head of Continental Telephone

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10. He kept seeing visions of Travers laughing as he related some anecdote then crumpling and crying out for help as Parker hit him with the butt end of his 45

11. Beatrice, my adorable sister Beatrice, always with the biting and suspicious comments on her lips, often we got entangled in words, but our fights did not have tangible consequences that could muddy our relationship, but were remaining wrapped under the indulgent cloak of the anecdote

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12. anecdote that shows it

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13. Recall that in the anecdote about Jane, it was not her father but her mother who told her to cover her body

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14. According to a popular anecdote, a woman who was dissatisfied with her appearance,

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15. Another favorite maternal anecdote dates back to the early

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16. Hearing Breidbart's anecdote retold elicits a wry smile from

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17. Newquist, who says this anecdote was confirmed by several Symbolics executives,

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18. on an anecdote about how the song came to

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19. While the anecdote was just a few paragraphs

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20. Richard Bauman has this anecdote to

21. She seemed fine up to then, as if she were telling us a really great anecdote

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22. Well, she really liked that anecdote

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23. Joseph Campbell shares this anecdote:

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24. Breaking Cutters With Tool Deflection: An Anecdote

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25. I’ll tell you an interesting anecdote

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26. Vincent diplomatically began an anecdote about a recent assignment his company had

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27. The anecdote quoted by M J Akbar in ‘The Shade of the Swords’, published by Roli Books, is illustrative

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28. There is an anecdote according to which the soul of Mahavir Swami entered into

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29. Maharaj Ji used to narrate an anecdote in this reference

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30. In fact, I may cite another personal anecdote in this connection

31. Yet, what a sad anecdote for both father and

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32. Understand this type through an anecdote

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33. In addition to your list of benefits, your blurb can contain an intriguing fact, or a short anecdote

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34. My uncle, embarked on anecdote, did not mention the war

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35. An anecdote to exemplify, the folly of political

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36. o You could start with something innovative, perhaps a quote or anecdote

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37. He had often heard the anecdote about one of his former news editors who on a particularly quiet day had jokingly called to a copy boy who was proud of the fact that he was recently converted to Christianity and ordered him to pray for news

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38. an amusing anecdote about the incident with his blonde

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39. Lee sounded like a proud father as he told the tale, they all listened intently and when he’d finished his anecdote they all gazed at the embarrassed Captain as he quietly spoke,

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40. to the short man standing on box anecdote

41. have plagiarised his durian anecdote to colleagues and friends

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42. that his anecdote had no relevance

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43. He slowly turned the pages, pages he’d read and studied over the past weeks until he knew every fascinating anecdote about every little cove in New England

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44. Dean's anecdote of his first attempt at enlightening the darkness in which he had been reared, I observed:

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45. Anecdote and story technique

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46. The anecdote about the interaction between Moch and Green is based in part on my interview with Marilynn Moch and in part on Moch himself in his interview with Michael J

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47. The anecdote regarding Ulbrickson’s determination to win gold at Berlin is based in large part on a video interview with Hazel Ulbrickson, “U of W Crew—The Early Years,” produced by American Motion Pictures Video Laboratory, Seattle, 1987

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48. Davey was not pleased by this anecdote

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49. But let me tell you one little anecdote, sir; just to show you

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50. Stepan Arkadyevitch’s anecdote too was very amusing

51. We had pretty much memorized every note and anecdote on a bootleg VHS of Martin Scorsese’s film of The Band’s big farewell show

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52. By “story,” we don’t mean “anecdote

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53. ” An anecdote is a snapshot, a one-dimensional shard of the big picture

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54. (As scientists like to say: The plural of anecdote is not data

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55. ) An anecdote is something that once happened to you, or to your uncle, or to your uncle’s accountant

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56. " He objected to the rather free style of anecdote in which Dr

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57. Before we look at what that is, let’s review an unfortunate anecdote from a former prop trader in that antiquated career path:

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58. My favorite Iceman anecdote concerns the pickle he found himself in with a few young ladies

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59. Consider it a sad anecdote of a failed trader

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60. Stick this anecdote in those forum posts, please

61. Now we have a salt that takes no shortcuts and hates cheating! Another interesting anecdote, although not completely historically proven, is that during the 200s, Lombards emigrated from the south of Sweden and settled down in Lombardy

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62. She started hollering out the start of a funny anecdote I recognized

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63. Magnitski, addressing himself to Speranski, was relating an anecdote, and Speranski was laughing in advance at what Magnitski was going to say

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64. Dean’s anecdote of his first attempt at enlightening the darkness in which he had been reared, I observed,—‘But, Mrs

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65. However, it didn’t matter what anecdote Norma Jeane relayed, nothing seemed to interest her mother

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66. According to veteran Hollywood agent Norman Winters, that anecdote is actually true

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67. One anecdote that was excised from the book upon its release was that Marilyn said she had tried to commit suicide twice—both times over relationships with men

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68. One more anecdote about Marilyn and Bobby comes from a Kennedy relative who requested anonymity, “because this is still such a sore subject with the family

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69. One file with that date includes this classic anecdote: “During the period of time that Robert F

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70. This anecdote says a great deal about a core tenet of successful investing: combining an understanding of what Buffett calls your “circle of competence” with the discipline to remain within its boundaries

71. As the saying goes, the plural of anecdote is not evidence

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72. ) mixes simple anecdote and pointed satire throughout the collection until he shifts at the end to the philosophical material

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73. The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story, about “my friend such a one

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74. Now for another anecdote

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75. Do you know the old Moscow anecdote a la Pyotr Ippolitovitch ? A nightingale was singing in a Moscow restaurant, a merchant came in ; 'I must have my fancy, whatever it costs, said he, ' what's the price of the nightingale ? ' ' A hmidred roubles

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76. I will, however, tell one recent anecdote about him (and there are many)

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77. And as ill-luck would have it, to set things right, I began telling a very cultivated anecdote about Piron, how he was not accepted into the French Academy, and to revenge himself wrote his own epitaph:

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78. When he came to telling of his visit to Madame Hohlakov, he regained his spirits and even wished to tell a little anecdote of that lady which had nothing to do with the case

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79. “There is an anecdote precisely on our subject, or rather a legend, not an anecdote

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80. “That anecdote about the quadrillion years, I made up myself! I was seventeen then, I was at the high school

81. I made up that anecdote and told it to a schoolfellow called Korovkin, it was at Moscow

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82. The anecdote is so characteristic that I couldn't have taken it from anywhere

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83. Knowing that you are inclined to believe in me, I administered some disbelief by telling you that anecdote

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84. In any case the anecdote made a certain favorable impression on the public

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85. My anecdote merely shows that you may light upon a bad man anywhere and everywhere

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86. But the strangest thing of all in my case is, that I should consider the little anecdote which I am now about to give you as a confession of the worst of my ‘bad actions

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87. “The question is connected with the following anecdote of past times; for I am obliged to relate a story

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88. Ah, here's another anecdote

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89. “But, uncle!” cried Mosgliakoff, at his wits' end, “it was Maria Alexandrovna herself told us that anecdote about Natalia Dimitrievna! I was here myself and heard it!—I was a blackguard, and listened at the keyhole!”

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90. But you remind me of an anecdote, Alexey Ivanovitch