narrative

Example Sentences

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I’m not saying that those narratives are morally equivalent, or that some vague sense of historical grievance and perceived hostility is a valid excuse for launching an unprovoked war against a neighboring country.

From Salon

"It's a beautiful place to live, and I feel like the City of Culture is helping the city turn its narrative around towards a more positive outlook."

From BBC

But it also reflects the way recipes are often treated as modular — headnote, ingredients, directions — rather than as a single narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

From Salon

But in “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” his riotous narrative inspired by his boyhood yuletides in the 1920s, Dylan Thomas serves up a dissenting version of the holiday as a merry mess.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Todd’s narrative begins as a police-procedural but subtly transforms into a tale of personal redemption and a poignant Christmas story.

From The Wall Street Journal