Sentence examples for read a diary from inspiring English sources

You would read a published diary that you knew had been abridged (most have been), but you would not read a diary whose entries you knew had been altered or updated.

"Lots of what we do is bring students of all ages in — hear a voice, see a photograph, read a diary, just so you understand that these are real people that these things happened to, because history tends to be really impersonal," Ms. Solomon said.

To read a diary by a court lady of the 10th century is still a moving experience, because she described with such honesty and intensity her deepest feelings that the modern-day reader forgets the chasm of history and changed social customs separating her world from today's.

"I read a diary entry that said sometimes instead of a food tray, you get a brown paper bag.

"One gets a feeling of almost reading a diary," he told me recently.

I wonder if revisiting Dubnobass… is like reading a diary of that period and he nods.

I want to read it over and over again, because it's like reading a diary that is and isn't your own at the same time.

Peter Hobbs has fashioned his story as though we are reading a diary, a most private journal, by a writer not in command of a sophisticated language.

I remember reading a diary column written by the left-wing Labour MP Eric Heffer shortly before the 1983 general election in which he described canvassing a very old lady in his Liverpool constituency.

Black Cloud has that rare quality of feeling almost as if you are reading a diary that someone wrote with the intention of it one day being found, for both her and your benefit.

There's nothing worse than reading a diary entry and having no idea what it's about.