Sentence examples for anecdote when from inspiring English sources

I was attempting to corroborate the Kreskin-Randi anecdote when the phone rang.

A few songs later, she was about to illuminate the situation with a Bob Hope anecdote when she stopped herself.

They try to stuff you with history and anecdote when all you want are ingredients and technique.

According to one anecdote, when the famous mystic Bāyazīd al-Besṭāmī (d. 874) was asked how old he was, he replied "four years".

Elif Shafak begins her new novel with a dedication containing a dark and portentous anecdote: when she was seven years old, she lived next door to a tailor who was in the habit of beating his wife.

With practiced earnestness, she knows when to drop a personal anecdote, when to take on the role of connoisseur, and when to play willfully naïve and let her subjects speak for themselves.

We continue to release anecdotes when appropriate, always monitoring any signs of personal trespass.

Dent asserts that I found my conclusions almost exclusively upon personal anecdotes, when in fact I refer to no fewer than 96 articles, books and academic studies.

BG Mascots, mayhem and wigs – a glimpse into world of football anecdotes When Leicester won at Sunderland in April it was a third successive away victory, a run that had started at Vicarage Road the previous month.

Even when he was over 80 the theatre continued to absorb him; he cut a striking figure, still lively in conversation and with some pungent anecdotes, when he joined the guests on the South Bank for the NT's 50th in 2013.

I like anecdotes when they complete the big story, but I'm still a journalist.