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• Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.From the entry taste
• The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech.From the entry bagful
• The person who introduced me stepped on my lines by giving a long summary, including all the good anecdotes.From the entry step on someone's lines
• In other situations, you might know someone who adds colour with personal anecdotes and feelings.2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC. From the entry hammer home
• That's a very nice anecdote that has zero basis in reality.2020 January 1, Tom-A062 (@Tom_A062), Twitter. From the entry and then everyone on the bus clapped
• Anecdotes aside, many historians are skeptical that trade, as a general rule, conduces to peace.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN…. From the entry conduce
• In the early evening, the bar fills with regulars trading anecdotes with tattooed, comely, competence-oozing barmaidens.2008 July 30 – August 5, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 42, number 44, page 34. From the entry barmaiden
• Romney who has most thoroughly incorporated such sunbeamy phrases and anecdotes into his repertory on the stump.2007 November 8, Michael Luo, “On Campaign Stump, Romney Preaches the Importance of Optimism”, in New York Times. From the entry sunbeamy
• This event is counterbalanced by Astolfo's encounter with the Amazons, which also constitutes an explicitly Bellerophonic anecdote.1988, Marianne Shapiro, The Poetics of Ariosto, page 97. From the entry Bellerophonic
• She repeated several little anecdotes or remarks about Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and George Antheil.1975, George Wickes, “A Natalie Barney Garland”, in The Paris Review, number 61. From the entry broken record
• He is a Wikipedia of trading anecdotes.2013, Mike Bellafiore, The PlayBook: An Inside Look at How to Think Like a Professional Trader, page 358. From the entry wikipedia
• The other ubiquitous anecdote, told by Harvard undergraduates who enjoyed poking gentle fun at the stately and aged Mrs.1990, Judith Roman, Annie Adams Fields: the spirit of Charles Street, page 12. From the entry gazelle in the garden
• The editor of the local history of Ching-chiang county, Kiangsu, related one anecdote which he professed was from his own observation.1988, Ju-K'ang T'ien, “Widespread Nature of the Cult of Female Marital Fidelity in the Ch'ing Period”, in Male Anxiety and Female…. From the entry Ching-chiang
• Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel.1984 Dec, James Atlas, “A Modern Whitman”, in The Atlantic. From the entry garrulous
• I want to see us make solid, substantial decisions based on facts, not based on anecdote, if you will.1982, United States, Congress, House, Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, Federal…. From the entry finger to the wind
• This anecdote is my answer. . . .1923, American Magazine - Volume 96, page 16. From the entry walk in straight lines
• Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes.1904, John Rexford, What Handwriting Indicates, pages 90–91. From the entry cacography
• If something utterly dreadful happens to you, shrug it off, put it down to experience and, in due course, turn it into an anecdote.2016 June 9, Caroline Taggart, Her Ladyship's Guide to the Art of Conversation, Batsford Books, →ISBN. From the entry in due course
• His response to a lengthy anecdote from a close friend is likely to range from a non-committal ‘Mmmmmmm’ to a rare ‘Very interesting’.”2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist…. From the entry mmm
• One only has to study the ancient historians: all their anecdotes come from ʿIrāq, which also became the decisive area for the state finances.2012, Fred McGraw Donner, Lawrence I. Conrad, editors, The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures (The Formation of the Classical…. From the entry ʿIrāq
• No historical anecdote had ever brought home to Fiben so well just how much agnosy and craziness poor human mels and fems had endured.2011, David Brin, The Uplift War, →ISBN. From the entry agnosy
• Also: tomorrow we're picking the winner of our Javanka wedding photo contest, so you still have time to work this anecdote into your entry.2009 October 29, Brian Moylan, “Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's Gay Friends Want to Sleep with the Help”, in Gawker. From the entry Javanka
• Moreover, anecdotes told in any ryūha that uses a particular weapon, although perhaps true to a certain extent, present a biased view.2003, Serge Mol, “Tracing the history of weapons”, in Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts, Tokyo…. From the entry ryūha
• Hence, perhaps, the innumerability of the anecdotes anent the irrepressibility of profanity while playing the game — a game proverbially provocative of reprehensible expletives.1910, Arnold Haultain, The Mystery of Golf, The Macmillan Company, page 197. From the entry innumerability
• Friends under interrogation insist that ‘Have You Eaten?’ is very much alive, but when asked to recall their last encounter, answers invariably skew towards inter-generational anecdotes.2018 September 17, Pan Jie, “Why Do We Greet Each Other By Asking, ‘Have You Eaten?’”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 02…. From the entry lor
• “Our little memorial service doesn’t have to hash all that up,” Father Roy said, “but we need to hash-up some good-buddy anecdotes to remember Lazerov and Mann.”2008 June 25, Jack K. Campbell, Guantanamo Remembered, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry hash up
• Chang's self-exile, however, aroused rather than thwarted her readers' desire; and they consumed anecdotes and hearsay about her life as eagerly as they did any of her works.1998, Eileen Chang, Ailing Zhang, The Rice Sprout Song, page xi. From the entry self-exile
• I took no systematic data on the costs to cheetahs and hyenas, but some anecdotes suggest that both parties took numerical advantage and hunger into account.1994, T. M. Caro, Cheetahs of the Serengeti Plains: Group Living in an Asocial Species, page 283. From the entry hyena
• Sometimes these sagas and anecdotes are touched with ribaldry, or with excessive obscenity, according to the times, and sometimes they are rooted in obscure but still verifiable deistic concepts.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 88. From the entry verifiable
• They are chippings and basketings of maxims and quotations, and of anecdotes, often classical, put together inductively, or rather by "simple enumeration" of the pros and cons.1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica (page 627). From the entry basketing
• His gossiply (rather feline) letters, which have many often highly entertaining anecdotes about his friends and contemporaries, provide an invaluable guide to the manners and interests of the 18th century.2002, Rajni Sehgal, Dictionary Of English Literat., page 215. From the entry gossiply

Meaning of anecdote

1. noun A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
2. noun An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
3. noun A previously untold secret account of an incident.

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Questions about anecdote in a sentence

How do you use anecdote in a sentence?

Anecdote is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward.”

What is a short sentence with anecdote?

“tell an anecdote”

What does anecdote mean?

Anecdote means a short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.