Sample Sentences for
anecdote
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    Billy Pilgrim had not heard this anecdote.  (source)
    anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
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    My father was telling them anecdotes and expounding his own views on the situation.  (source)
    anecdotes = short, true stories
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    We often pass the time amusing ourselves with anecdotes about you.  (source)
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    We traded stupid family anecdotes, like the time when Cass almost burned down the house with her Easy-Bake Oven, or when my father drank a huge glass of clam juice, thinking it was lemonade.  (source)
    anecdotes = short, true stories
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    This was a confidential portion of the chat, a little anecdote between the two men.†  (source)
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    Each one poured into the conversation his store of wise sad anecdotes and his dry regret about the race of men.  (source)
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    What you will conclude from the next anecdote I cannot guess.†  (source)
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    He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and...  (source)
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    For every anecdote I remember, Brad remembers two more.†  (source)
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    After he completed his anecdotes, Mayor Schmoke ended our meeting.†  (source)
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    But just as the young lieutenant is about to tell his first anecdote, the doors to the kitchen open and three footmen appear bearing platters.†  (source)
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    Moira became, over the years, increasingly versed in such anecdotes.†  (source)
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    He told the amazing historical anecdote of Seth's father, Cleon, hiring Lucien's grandfather Robert E. Lee Wilbanks to handle a land dispute in 1928.†  (source)
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