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At the end of the hearing, committee members agreed to meet in a secure facility on Wednesday afternoon to hear Mullin regale them with his tales of daring from a decade ago.

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2026

But first, he has to regale his teammates of the tale of getting Aaron Judge out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Neely knew every great hole-in-the-wall breakfast and lunch joint in Los Angeles, where he would regale friends and colleagues with his infectious sense of humor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

In the meantime, Dottie will regale the team, the pub and pretty much anyone else within earshot with substantially exaggerated tales of Ted’s youth.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2023

She went on to regale them with stories about circus life—hanging from trapezes, leaping through flaming hoops, getting shot from cannons—until gradually Sticky cheered up, and the matter of parents was dropped.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

Try as he might to squelch them, Joel's paternal urges rise up to meet her playfulness when she regales him with puns or teases him for his seriousness.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2023

In Oval Office meetings to chart the future of America’s car industry, Mr. Biden regales aides with obscure trivia about automobiles that were made before many of them were born.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

When home, the boy regales him with stories about his new school.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

Cole regales Shorter with the history of the neighborhood where both have chosen to lay their heads.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021

Dylan has hijacked the spotlight as he regales his “tale of a young man who flipped off Death” to Ethan and Arthur and gives them tips on how they can also “escape Death’s clutches.”

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

On a visit to Samar midway through his training, Horbenko regaled relatives with stories of his training, showing video clips from the shooting ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Speaking from Michigan before a backdrop of American flags, Slotkin was much more concise and much less animated than the president, who regaled Republicans on the House floor for an hour and 40 minutes.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

Watson regaled the courtroom with "Leave It to Beaver"-style stories of his upbringing.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024

She’d studied art in Paris during college — and she regaled me with stories of ill-fated romances she’d had there — before breaking into Hollywood as a TV writer in the 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024

Myron often regaled me with stories of the lame stuff they used to do together in that room—play board games like Risk and Stratego, trade baseball cards, set up their own Nerf basketball leagues.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

Here, Robyn delights in regaling the listener with the contradictory ideas of motherhood she’s encountered in the four years since becoming a mom to her son, Tyko.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

Cut to Jackie amid the tumult of a construction site, regaling a documentary crew with her plan to erect an “exact replica” of the palace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

These days you’ll find the veteran performer upstairs at the Matrix Theatre, where he’s regaling small groups of theatergoers with a lively account of local backstage madness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Darcelle, who died Thursday, was crowned the world’s oldest working drag performer in 2016 by the Guinness Book of World Records and was regaling audiences until the very end.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

She muscled her car through traffic while regaling them with stories about the crazy families of Atlanta—the old plantation owners, the founders of Coca-Cola, the sports stars, and the CNN news people.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan