retell
Example Sentences
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Now “Five Bullets,” by Elliot Williams, and “Fear and Fury,” by Heather Ann Thompson, retell the story.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
The stories we tell and retell carry the same knowing.
From Salon • Oct. 7, 2025
As some of the subjects confess to what they’ve done and others painfully retell their experience on the receiving end, an overwhelming collective sorrow is transmitted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025
The sagas retell stories from the Viking era, but were written hundreds of years after the events, from 1200 onwards.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2025
I went back to class during third period and was bombarded with requests to retell the story.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
