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Example sentences for "narrating"

Lexicographically close words:
nark; narra; narrate; narrated; narrates; narration; narrations; narrative; narratives; narrator
  1. My diary contains no further entry until the middle of May, and letters I wrote to my parents narrating the incidents which befel us at Kioto have not been preserved.

  2. But as this was not concerned with the progress of political events in Japan, it seems unnecessary to occupy space in narrating our experiences.

  3. He commenced eating and narrating until the respective appetites of Mrs Beazely and himself were equally appeased, and then set off for the abode of Robertson, to ascertain the fate of the infant.

  4. When, therefore, her father came home, narrating the circumstances which had occurred, and the plan which had been meditated, Fanny entered gaily into the scheme.

  5. This, instead of explaining the event, is simply narrating it afresh.

  6. He is absolutely powerless to put any check upon their talk, and yet at this very moment he may be narrating to her that story which his own loyalty had forbidden him to overhear.

  7. When narrating the astonishing incidents which took place on the pyre, he drops the positive tone, and continues the story with "the Lydians say.

  8. Strabo, when narrating the campaign which Petronius took in the year 24 B.

  9. There was something so very ridiculous in this event, that I cannot help narrating it; but let it not be supposed, for a moment, that I intend it as a sarcasm upon American hospitality in general.

  10. I'll do it willingly, my lord," the young knight acquiesced, and thereupon began narrating his adventures.

  11. From the inception of their acquaintance, the young knight had accorded to her a sincere admiration, and in a very short space she had won his confidence to the extent that he was now narrating to her the experiences of his journey.

  12. I have already admitted it; and were it not to avoid too long a digression, I could adduce many instances in point; but I will speak of these another time, if heaven grants me an opportunity of narrating my life to you.

  13. At length the Earl and Jacob were left together with the resuscitated highwayman, who now lost no time in narrating to them the particulars of his visit to that very house a few weeks previously.

  14. While we were yet far from coming to an open explanation," continued the baronet, as calmly as if he were narrating a history of but little moment, "an event occurred which hastened the affair to the catastrophe that I contemplated.

  15. One day, as the ponies were in the field where I was watching some men at work, I heard them narrating to a stranger the wonderful feats of this dog, for I have related but a small portion.

  16. The reader must be aware that, from the tenour of Sir Theophilus's letter, the circumstances which we are narrating must have occurred some fifty years ago.

  17. I then introduced her to my father, briefly narrating the circumstances under which she became a member of our little crew, and frankly explaining the relation in which we now stood towards each other.

  18. In narrating the unhappy death of the Prince, I have stated that the Crows bore no good-will to the white men established among the Shoshones.

  19. While they were narrating their history, the two trappers arrived with a fat buck.

  20. While narrating these things, every time Queequeg received the tomahawk from me, he flourished the hatchet-side of it over the sleeper's head.

  21. One of them in the Orange River Colony, after narrating to me his many hairbreadth escapes, prophesied bitterly that the memory of his services would pass with the need for them.

  22. Before narrating the circumstances connected with the Battle of Nooitgedacht there is one incident which occurred in this same region which should be recounted.

  23. There is an obscurity attached to his manner of narrating this anecdote, which leaves the opinion of the author a little uncertain.

  24. He began by narrating the loves of a young girl and a young man.

  25. On the evening of which I was speaking in my last chapter, Mr Johnson was evidently in the vein for narrating his veracious history.

  26. When our repast was concluded we whiled away the time by narrating our adventures, and though you may have observed that I am not much given in general to talking, I confess I did feel a pleasure in letting my tongue run on.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "narrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.