narrative
Example Sentences
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United States acknowledged, location data is especially revealing because movement forms narrative and human beings tell stories through where they go.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
If, at times, the narrative structure sags and the character portraits blur, it’s in service to the immensity of hope and defiance extinguished by the airstrike.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
By transforming Parks into a meek, accidental activist whose only deficit was physical fatigue, the dominant cultural narrative effectively stripped her of her radicalism.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
For much of the past decade — since about the death of the theater’s patriarch — the narrative surrounding the theater was one of survival.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
They tried the sentence again, reading together out loud: “‘For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.’”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Vocabulary lists containing narrative
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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