Sentence examples for was retelling from inspiring English sources
verb
To tell again, to paraphrase, to tell something one has read or heard.
Soon I was retelling our story to the man who answered that door.
"I was retelling my youth in Syria and I had this impression of being 10, being stuck in my memories.
Indeed, he once caused a scene in a restaurant when he was retelling the Odyssey to his son Tom, then about five years old.
Soon she was retelling a story from her book, about how JANE FONDA called to see if she was interested in dating TED TURNER.
"Zero Dark Thirty" received some of the strongest reviews this week, while "The Impossible" suffered from an emotional disconnect from the story it was retelling.
These tropes are prevalent throughout the history of all storytelling, and it just so happens that Disney was retelling a lot of fairy tales in the late '50s.
By evening, both sides were retelling the story as a parable of how times have changed.
Half the life of a professional climber is retelling old stories to finance the creation of new ones.
The writer often doesn't know, consciously, what gods she invokes or what myths she's retelling.
Margaret Owen London The five freed from Guantánamo will be retelling their experience of beatings, waterboarding and noise torture.
And when you are retelling your story to your people, you can tell them that we, the Mayoruna, exist too".
