NARRATOR in a Sentence

Learn NARRATOR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

130 example sentences for NARRATOR, such as:

1. The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
2. He has recorded the narration for the production.
3. His trip through the world made an interesting narrative.
4. She carried this point, and Sir Thomas's narrative proceeded.
5. The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.

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 Meanings and Examples of NARRATOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
narrator
 n.  someone who tells a story
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1  "Why no, my dear fellow," said the astonished narrator, shrugging his shoulders.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
2  Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
3  Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we place ourselves at Jean Valjean's point of view, and we translate his impressions.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
4  The gentleman appeared to be enumerating all his qualities to his auditors; and, as I have said, the auditors seeming to have great deference for the narrator, they every moment burst into fits of laughter.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
5  You will find me a very awkward narrator, Miss Dashwood; I hardly know where to begin.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
6  The narrator turned, saw a woman near and, not being a common person nor a coarse workman but a clever salesman and a householder, lowered his voice for the rest of the tale.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  Rance sat down on the horsehair sofa, and knitted his brows as though determined not to omit anything in his narrative.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
8  So thrilling had the man's narrative been, and his manner was so impressive that we had sat silent and absorbed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9  Go then, and first read the narrative which Lanyon warned me he was to place in your hands; and if you care to hear more, turn to the confession of.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
10  Nor must I delay too long to bring my writing to an end; for if my narrative has hitherto escaped destruction, it has been by a combination of great prudence and great good luck.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
11  For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
12  Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages material to his understanding the rest of this important narrative.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Thus the dangers which Bois-Guilbert surmounted, in themselves sufficiently great, became portentous in their narrative.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
14  She carried this point, and Sir Thomas's narrative proceeded.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  At this point of the narrative the cook turned pale, and asked the housemaid to shut the door: who asked Brittles, who asked the tinker, who pretended not to hear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  Rochester has been favored with the most lively and the most continuous? The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
2  The entire film, filmed in a single unbroken Steadicam take, consists of an unnamed narrator wandering through the rooms of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, where 300 years of Russian history are being acted out by a cast of thousands.
3  My cousins, full of exhilaration, were so eloquent in narrative and comment, that their fluency covered him.
4  Plus, a narrative bibliography is included to provide a discussion of the professional literature and topics covered in the book.
5  The reason I tried to write it in narrative, is I found this to be much more honest way to present the facts of this story.
6  The story starts off as a disaster narrative, as most of humanity gets wiped out by a flu virus and the few survivors begin to cluster together.
7  The novel fails to achieve narrative continuity.
8  The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.
9  His trip through the world made an interesting narrative.
10  The book is written in the style of first-person narrative.
11  It's time to stop tip-toeing around my past, time to stop living a life of opprobrium, and time to take back my narrative.
12  The point here is that institutions define the discourses and narratives through which aesthetic experience is received.
13  Its story-within-a-story method of narration is confusing.
14  He has recorded the narration for the production.
15  Myth narrates a sacred history; it relates an event that took place in primordial time, the fabulous time of the beginnings.