Example Sentences

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He writes about them as if he were narrating a trailer for a horror film.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Mr. Burroughs, a 77-year-old chartered accountant, speaks carefully and barely above a whisper, as if he were narrating a golf tournament.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2021

He also told me what happened the second after that photo was taken, as though he were narrating the next few frames of a news reel.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2018

To the assembled rows of students in blue uniforms, the senior girl making the announcement described Philadelphia’s black neighborhoods in a dramatic voice, as if she were narrating an adventure story.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2014

Hence, he delighted in listening to "his boys" when they were narrating some stirring event that had come to their experience.

From The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck by Langworthy, John Luther