personal narrative
Example Sentences
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While personal narrative is key to the album, “No. 29” acts as an aural demarcation.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
Ms. MeLampy is at her best when she eschews personal narrative in favor of her lacerating accounts of the animal festivals she visits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
"These facial depictions also encourage the audience to understand ancient remains as people rather than artefacts, and to establish a connection through personal narrative rather than a wider population history," she adds.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2025
“There’s so much memoir and personal narrative in the essays that I think some of them absolutely do start off right where ‘Red Paint’ left off,” LaPointe says.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024
"I hold here a letter from Mr. Hankes," said his Lordship, pompously, and in a tone that was meant to recall Mr. Driscoll from the personal narrative he had entered upon with such evident self-satisfaction.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James