Sentence examples for an amusing anecdote from inspiring English sources

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A decent steak and an amusing anecdote.

"I have an amusing anecdote for you," Ms. Disenhouse says.

Sometimes she spoke as though she were telling an amusing anecdote about somebody else.

Also correspondence regarding an amusing anecdote at Alice Cook's retirement involving David Burak and a joke about the Cornell mace.

Mike Richter, the Rangers' goalie, recounts an amusing anecdote to the writer at the end of the story.

(She follows up an amusing anecdote about Glasgow kisses with: "Anyway, here's a song from the movie Cars").

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A particularly amusing anecdote involves a fight over how gory a warning label for walk-behind mowers would be; the watered-down version that was eventually approved, Steinberg says, "suggests that putting your finger under the deck might result in something like a paper cut".

A bleakly amusing anecdote from Tim Ross and Tom McTague's book on the election, Betting the House, involves Theresa May's aides asking colleagues to organise a big rally to counter images of Corbyn addressing gigantic crowds all over the country.

joke- noun 1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or prankish act.

A talk to students by what are called industrialists in academia (people who have worked as engineers, aka engineers) is considered by academics an opportunity for a few amusing anecdotes, but lacking sufficient rigour to be taken seriously by either staff or students.

But I felt uneasy about this because it had been such an important segment of my life and I was reducing it to a few amusing anecdotes to tell at a dinner party.

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