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01. They hired a famous actor to [narrate] their documentary about saving the whales.
02. The movie has a voice-over [narrative] by the leading character to take us from one scene to another.
03. The former President [narrated] an excerpt from his autobiography on a talk show last night.
04. The [narrator] of this story is only a casual observer; she doesn't really understand what is happening around her.
05. Our walking tour audio cassettes are available with [narration] in 20 different languages.
06. Former world leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton have helped to [narrate] a new recording of Sergei Prokofiev's story "Peter and the Wolf."
07. Everyone was completely fascinated as they listened to his [narrative] of their climb up Everest, including the accident and their rescue.
08. The writer's choice of [narrator] is extremely important for the way a story is perceived by the reader.
09. The paintings of Vassily Kandinsky are characterized by rhythmic lines, colors, and shapes, rather than any sense of [narrative].
10. A third-person [narrator] works wells for stories in which the viewpoints of many characters is important.
11. Paul Auster once suggested that we construct a [narrative] for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next.
12. The art of the Roman Empire was generally commemorative and [narrative], and was based not on myth, but on history.
13. The [narrative] content of the sculptures in the temple known as the Parthenon served to proclaim the greatness of Classical Athens.
14. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt once observed that we breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as [narratives].
15. D. H. Lawrence once said that myth is an attempt to [narrate] a whole human experience.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • narrate — ar*rate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Narrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Narrating}.] [L. narratus, p. p. of narrare to narrate, prob. for gnarigare, fr. gnarus knowing. See {Ignore}, {Know}.] To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • narrate — index communicate, convey (communicate), detail (particularize), inform (notify), recite, recoun …   Law dictionary

  • narrate — (v.) 1748, back formation from narration or else from L. narratus, pp. of narrare to tell, relate, recount (see NARRATION (Cf. narration)). Richardson and Johnson call it Scottish [OED], a stigma which kept it from general use until 19c. A few… …   Etymology dictionary

  • narrate — *relate, rehearse, recite, recount, describe, state, report Analogous words: tell, *reveal, disclose, discover: *discourse, expatiate, dilate, descant …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • narrate — [v] describe, detail characterize, chronicle, delineate, depict, descant, disclose, discourse, enumerate, expatiate, give an account of, hold forth, make known, paint, picture, portray, proclaim, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, repeat, report …   New thesaurus

  • narrate — ► VERB 1) give an account of. 2) provide a commentary for (a film, television programme, etc.). DERIVATIVES narration noun narrator noun. ORIGIN Latin narrare …   English terms dictionary

  • narrate — [nar′āt΄; na rāt′, nərāt′] vt., vi. narrated, narrating [< L narratus, pp. of narrare, to tell, akin to gnarus, acquainted with < IE * ĝnoro < base * ĝen , to KNOW] 1. to tell (a story) in writing or speech 2. to give an account of… …   English World dictionary

  • narrate — [17] To narrate something is etymologically to ‘make it known’. The word comes from Latin narrāre ‘give an account of’, which was derived from gnārus ‘knowing’ and is hence related to English ignore, recognize, and, distantly, know. English… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • narrate — [[t]nəre͟ɪt, AM næ̱reɪt[/t]] narrates, narrating, narrated 1) VERB If you narrate a story, you tell it from your own point of view. [FORMAL] [V n] The three of them narrate the same events from three perspectives... [V n] The book is narrated by… …   English dictionary

  • narrate — UK [nəˈreɪt] / US [ˈneˌreɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms narrate : present tense I/you/we/they narrate he/she/it narrates present participle narrating past tense narrated past participle narrated 1) to tell a story in speech or writing Mark… …   English dictionary

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