retelling

Example Sentences

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She could be wryly funny about the impossibility of escaping her past; in time, her exasperation with endlessly retelling the story of her childhood became an aspect of the story.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Their retelling imagines the star-crossed lovers meeting later in life, repositioning the story from a perspective of age and experience, with the title characters aged in their 40s.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

I don’t know whether or not he is a narcissist, but from your retelling, he is someone who has always looked out for himself.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

Karp had spent years publicly retelling the story of how he fought to poach Barshay in 2016 from rival firm Cravath to build Paul Weiss’s then-fledging mergers and acquisitions practice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

However, I’m not sure how modesty figures in my retelling the tale to you.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine