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• The story was narrated from an omniscient point of view.From the entry omniscient
• The male European mantis “uses his feelers to calm her down”, the BBC narrates.2021 May 27, Helen Sullivan, “A praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’”, in The…. From the entry feeler
• Teiresias went on to narrate coming out as queer and, later, as a transguy.2011, Heather Jane Sykes, Queer Bodies: Sexualities, Genders, & Fatness in Physical Education, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry transguy
• Whilst the grottesca candelaber pilaster “antiquize”, the figurative scenes narrate Christian stories.2008, Metamorphosed Margins: The Case for a Visual Rhetoric of the Renaissance Grottesche Under the Influence of Ovid’s Metamorphoses…. From the entry antiquize
• I already narrated my first film, Ta Dona, in the same way that a griot would have.2003, Melissa Thackway, “Interview I: Adama Drabo, director”, in Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone…. From the entry griot
• Beginning in antiquity, it narrates wars, wanderings, the diasporae, rebellions, persecutions, individual and collective triumphs and survivals.1966, Publishers Weekly, volume 189, page 81, column 2. From the entry diasporae
• During the nineteenth century battues for large carnivores were quite frequently narrated as instructive stories about the organization of the hunt.2017, Karin Dirke, “Changing Narratives of Human: Large Carnivore Encounters in Nineteenth-century Sweden”, in Tuomas Räsänen, Taina…. From the entry battue
• A wrenching breakup is narrated via Facebook, GChat, Skype and a number of other mediating and alienating applications.2014 February 7, Teddy Wayne, “The 7-Day Digital Diet”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry gchat
• For starters, there’s a collection of fully narrated video tutorials that show you step by step how to perform various tasks.1999 June, Popular Mechanics, page 34. From the entry handholder
• In pantomime, Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 26. From the entry pantomime
• The only histories of music in their nations with which reigning Latin American composers are pleased are those narrated by themselves.1991, Carleton Sprague Smith, editor, Libraries, History, Diplomacy, and the Performing Arts: Essays in Honor of Carleton Sprague Smith. From the entry musicography
• (Aaron Burr and Andrew Jackson ride together in Tennessee; Burr narrates): Jackson shouted at me his view of the duel.1973, Gore Vidal, Burr, chapter 36. From the entry pusillanimous
• At that particular chaupal time, each one sitting there had kept his own viewpoint to narrate Priyamavda's beauty in their own words.2022, Sumina Sharma, Other Side of the Edge: An Upbringing of Ancient Modernity, page 110. From the entry chaupal
• Adam, like the baby-in-waiting who narrates Nutshell, is an extraordinarily smart, well-informed, and unorthodox character who catches his supposed caretakers off-guard with his perspicacity.2019 April 23, Heller McAlpin, “In McEwan's Latest, The 'Machine' Is Too Much Like You”, in NPR. From the entry perspicacity
• Father narrated the story of how Canada developed over a short period to surpass other countries, including Britain, from which it had emerged.2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 219. From the entry canada
• A list of the common themes narrated in a katha would comprise of the kidnapping of a girl, battle, separation and epic and puranic events.2013, Deepa Sreenivas, Sculpting a Middle Class, page 50. From the entry katha
• The sagas have more than their share of axings in the back, killings encompassed by treachery and trickery, narrated without accompanying moralizations.2009, William Ian Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking. From the entry axing
• Some people can indeed do much of their narrating in a nattery manner, verbalizing whatever pops into their heads in the same basic disorder.2008, William L. Randall, Elizabeth McKim, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old, page 37. From the entry nattery
• Any text disciplining imagination by appearing not to be writing at all — the essence of fast capitalism — requires narration; it narrates itself storylessly.1989, Ben Agger, Fast Capitalism: A Critical Theory of Significance. From the entry storylessly
• It narrates how some skeletons were found in one of the French Departments semihuman in character, the body apish, and the skull human.1909 March 1, “Missing Link”, in Progress, page 171. From the entry semihuman
• The film updates the Romeo & Juliet formula, and narrates the story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl in a smalltown Uttar Pradesh setup.2013 February 15, Priyanka Srivastava, “Is Bollywood trying to rid Muslim characters of stereotypes?”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media…. From the entry smalltown
• This telltale is not like the story that you put in the hands of your children, or those narrated by mothers in their children's bedrooms in Western Europe before sleep.2018, Dawood Kaloti, The Telltale Leaflet: From Palestine to Stockholm. From the entry telltale
• Of her Mvskoke heritage, Harjo wrote a poem, “Indian School Night Song,” narrated from the perspective of an intoxicated woman reflecting on the condition of her school and its students.2016 September 18, “Acclaimed Poet Joy Harjo Describes Influence of Her Mvskoke Heritage”, in The Cornell Daily Sun. From the entry Mvskoke
• I narrated the first series and it went really well, so they commissioned me to get in among the muck and bullets and actually go on patrol around the world.2013, Vinnie Jones, It's Been Emotional, page 215. From the entry muck and bullets
• And an African ensemble, with Kewulay Kamara narrating and Missia Sarah Dioubate singing to the accompaniment of the lutelike kora and percussion, offered "A Badenya Greeting: Being of One Mother."2009 January 2, Allan Kozinn, “Reflecting on Peace in the Quiet Light of Song”, in New York Times. From the entry lutelike
• Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts.2006, Philip Tew, Rod Mengham, British Fiction Today. From the entry lighthousekeeper

Meaning of narrate

1. verb To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.
2. verb To give an account.

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How do you use narrate in a sentence?

Narrate is used as a verb. For example: “The story was narrated from an omniscient point of view.”

What is a short sentence with narrate?

“narrate a story”

What does narrate mean?

Narrate means to relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.