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How to use chronicler in a sentence

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Chronicler means a person who writes a chronicle or chronicles. Example: “But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.”

Examples of chronicler by meaning

nounA person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.

  • But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268

More sentences with chronicler

  • The sixteenth-century chroniclers tell us that areítos recited histories, which were transmitted through the generations.2005, Peter E. Siegel, Ancient Borinquen: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico. From the entry areíto
  • Henry Mayhew, the nineteenth-century chronicler of London's underworld, described the frenzied activity of one ratting contest.1993, Ronald H. Fritze, James Stuart Olson, Randy Roberts, Reflections on World Civilization: A Reader, volume 2, page 102. From the entry ratting
  • I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there.1954, Gore Vidal, Messiah. From the entry abandon
  • The unnamed chronicler in his Dupin stories was the first Dr.1948, Willard E. Hawkins, The Technique of Fiction: A Basic Course in Story Writing, page 169. From the entry satellite
  • One wishes to be anew Smollett; another, to out-Tarzan the chronicler of apes.1926, Albert E. Bull, Authorship And Journalism, London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, page 49. From the entry out-Tarzan
  • Reagan has famously stumped his chroniclers.2024 September 9, Jennifer Burns, “Book Review: 'Reagan' by Max Boot”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2024. From the entry confounded
  • There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 94. From the entry benefice
  • Friedman’s own place in the history books will rest upon how the chroniclers portray his role in the hypercapitalist free fall of the early 21st century.2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times. From the entry hypercapitalist
  • Introduced as the bad boy of American letters, the brattiest of the Brat Pack that included Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz and other chroniclers of young Reagan-era angst, Mr.2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Brat Pack
  • Do I roll several occasions into one, or amplify one beyond reason? — this last being ever, I allow, the waiting pitfall of a chronicler too memory-ridden.1914, Henry James, chapter 6, in Notes of a Son and Brother, page 204. From the entry memory-ridden

Meaning of chronicler

  1. noun A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.

Full definition of chronicler

Questions about chronicler in a sentence

How do you use chronicler in a sentence?
Chronicler is used as a noun. For example: “But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.”
What is a short sentence with chronicler?
“Reagan has famously stumped his chroniclers.”
What does chronicler mean?
Chronicler means a person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.

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