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How to use storyteller in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Storyteller means a person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience. Example: “He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot.”

Examples of storyteller by meaning

nounA person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.

  • "Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard," said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl.1952, E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

More sentences with storyteller

  • He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot.From the entry make up
  • What had come over their favorite storyteller to mistalk like that?2021, Maryse Condé, Crossing the Mangrove. From the entry mistalk
  • My Kookum was a storyteller and all the stories she told were told in Cree.2014, Neal McLeod, Indigenous Poetics in Canada, page 18. From the entry kookum
  • The voices of recondite writers quoted at length, forgotten storytellers weaving narratives, obscure scholars savaging one another.2004 Autumn, American Scholar, 129. From the entry recondite
  • Jarrett Martineau, a nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and Dene Sųłiné producer, artist, scholar, and storyteller, is the curator-in-residence at the Chan Centre.2022 February 17, Stuart Derdeyn, “Indigenous scholar, artist, broadcaster Jarrett Martineau is Chan Centre curator-in-residence”, in…. From the entry Dëne Sųłıné
  • The former had been told orally for centuries, appearing in written form during the Song as a scriptbook for storytellers.2015, William J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel, World History, page 347. From the entry scriptbook
  • Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, Cornell University Press, page 14. From the entry complexifier
  • Despite his patronage of the escritorial arts, he was not a reader, so he tried storytellers and soon became bored.1987, Ernest Kellogg Gann, The Triumph, page 292. From the entry escritorial
  • Like Andre Norton, Sandra Miesel is both loremistress and storyteller, steeped in the history and legend that permeates her writing.1985, “The Hunt”, in Susan Shwartz, editor, Moonsinger’s Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton, Bluejay Books Inc., →ISBN, page 78. From the entry loremistress
  • In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son.2015 August 1, Cristina Herrera, Paula Sanmartín, Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing, Demeter…. From the entry recuperate
  • Modern South African film directors and performers as bards, izimbongi or storytellers have only residues of existing 'traditional societies' to bring to the surface.2006, Keyan G[ray] Tomaselli, “Orality in African Cinema: Reasoning, Representation and Relativism”, in Encountering Modernity: Twentieth…. From the entry izimbongi
  • By withholding information, thereby abnegating the textual strategies of the storyteller by undercoding the text, Calvino augments the duties of the concerned reader.2006, Franco Ricci, Difficult Games: A Reading of I Racconti by Italo Calvino, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry undercode
  • The unreliable narrator demonstrates how the spirit of the times colours the work of storytellers, and how they in turn help to shape that spirit.1999, Robert Fulford, “The Cracked Mirror of Modernity”, in The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (CBC Massey…. From the entry unreliable narrator
  • And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.1998, Monica F. Cohen, Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel: Women, work and home, Cambridge University Press, page 32. From the entry life
  • Unreliable narrators are connivers, lunatics, and innocents, but what they all have in common is their unreliability as storytellers, their rejection or ignorance of the truth.2011, Judy Doenges, “The Truthless Narrator”, in Andrea Barrett, Peter Turchi, editors, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their…. From the entry unreliable narrator

Meaning of storyteller

  1. noun A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
  2. noun A liar; a fibber.
  3. noun A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.

Full definition of storyteller

Questions about storyteller in a sentence

How do you use storyteller in a sentence?
Storyteller is used as a noun. For example: “He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot.”
What is a short sentence with storyteller?
“What had come over their favorite storyteller to mistalk like that?”
What does storyteller mean?
Storyteller means a person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.

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