Sentence examples for previous anecdote from inspiring English sources

Take the previous anecdote about Leifthrasir.

We explained the previous anecdote to these bankers, and we all had a good laugh.

The Rockefeller team used this number and a geometrical analogy to conclude that humans could discriminate at least 1.72 trillion odors, which was much higher than expected from previous reports and anecdotes.

"I can use my cellphone, too!" My seatmate expounded an elaborate theory on why crazy people like to ride buses, complete with similar anecdotes from previous trips.

So much controversy has lately surrounded the post-Ross eras of The New Yorker that to read this volume is to experience a prelapsarian Eden, much of which has become familiar through previous books and famous anecdotes.

Mr. McCain's program, a montage of interviews, historical footage, anecdotes and previous commercials, was a more reserved piece that seemed intended to imbue the candidate with a statesmanlike quality.

It includes slower-paced songs (in this case "Bus Driver's Song"), high-energy numbers, like the mock R&B tune "Sugarlumps", and a song that weaves in all their previous, and deliberately mundane, anecdotes about being on tour and thereby gives them a much-needed raison d'être – a long time to wait for a payoff, though.

But while previous research often relied on anecdotes, observations or animals in captivity, the monkey study documented social learning in wild animals.

Previous scholars "tended to cherry-pick anecdotes without having a sense that it was possible to measure all of that text and treat the whole archive as a single unit," he said.

Each anecdote seems to surpass the previous one for shudder-inducing impact.

Mom & Me & Mom is an overview of Angelou's life and revisits many of the same anecdotes she relates in her previous books.