personal narrative
Example Sentences
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David rapidly translated his Roman experiences into a personal narrative style that distills physical action into a minutely detailed frozen moment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
"These facial depictions also encourage the audience to understand ancient remains as people rather than artefacts, and to establish a connection through personal narrative rather than a wider population history," she adds.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2025
Eric Adams' personal narrative is a remarkable American story, by any standard.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2024
“There’s so much memoir and personal narrative in the essays that I think some of them absolutely do start off right where ‘Red Paint’ left off,” LaPointe says.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2024
It combines the authenticity of history with the freshness of personal narrative, and in the richness and beauty of its embellishments is hardly surpassed by any of the serials of the day.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
