Example Sentences

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Wiltshire Police said: "This is relating to a Metropolitan Police case and, as such, it would not be appropriate for Chief Constable Catherine Roper to comment."

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025

See, you might think that Carmen is relating her views on love, but no.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

For example, maybe you have seen a meme of an upset cat or of a friend turning around to look at something else while another friend is relating something important.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

He interrupts one tale to complain, Charles Kinbote-like, about the ubiquitous sight of telegraph poles in the hotel where he was staying when he first heard the story he is relating.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019

In the present instance, "remote" is an epithet substituted by Shahrazád for some other of a gross nature, from respect to the king to whom she is relating the story.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous