Sentence examples for anecdote out from inspiring English sources
He can go for ages without a word, then you'll get a hilarious anecdote out of him.
He added that when he tried the peacock anecdote out on the members of a literary society at Eton College, it was received in bewildered silence.
They left the coffee-room anecdote out of "All the President's Men," which was published in June, 1974, in the middle of the House impeachment hearings.
Was Alexander going to find some way to make a warmhearted anecdote out of the time Bunning single-handedly held up an important administration confirmation because he was angry at Canada for banning the sale of flavored tobacco?
Robert Wilson is in need of salvation, though clearly hasn't seen any West Indian fast bowlers out on the town because he would have blurted the anecdote out straight away.
But at least I got an amusing anecdote out of the situation.
It is an old anecdote coming out a little more than three months before an election.
The peaks and valleys of catharsis and dread are dizzying, but if any one anecdote stands out, it is the story of the people of Philadelphia and their experience with the epidemic.
And he motors enjoyably through a huge quantity of data and anecdotes, sending out provocative flares along the way.
It reveals, among other things, that Welles's reputation as a self-mythologizer is itself a bit of a myth: quite a few improbable anecdotes turn out to be more or less true.
