How to Use narrative in a Sentence

narrative

1 of 2 noun

• He is writing a detailed narrative of his life on the island.
• People have questioned the accuracy of his narrative.
• The first weaves in and out of the narrative of the film.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• Both narratives are built around a hope that the worst is in the past.
  — Author: Brittny Mejia, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2020
• The art here is in the narrative and, of course, the design.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
• The vignettes of the story are told through a month of narrative.
  — Emily Sorensen, Pomerado News, 2 Nov. 2017
• These are all part of the narrative—and the book was designed to capture the why.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 June 2020
• Why, then, does the pulse of the narrative falter in the second half?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 July 2018
• There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 9 Mar. 2018
• The data adds a bright chapter to the narrative of women’s progress in the world of work.
  — Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2017
• But sometimes the narrative shifts can give you whiplash.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
• Sometimes, though, the narrative takes on a life of its own.
  — Pat Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 15 Feb. 2020
• There were only sort of a few of those kinds of narratives that came up over and over again.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 5 July 2018
• But first, could a hug change the narrative on school shootings?
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2019
• The fault is in our stars and not us, according to this narrative.
  — Anthony Hennen, National Review, 26 Oct. 2021
• In this set of narrative tree-rings, ice sheets cover the earth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
• By noon on Wednesday this will be the narrative about the election.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 Nov. 2020
• Trying to try to thread that through in a narrative is important to us as well.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
• Or, rather, the narratives of the war are exactly what the book means to subvert.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2020
• There’s so many false narratives that get piled on top of each other.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 24 Nov. 2018
• And the narrative is, frankly, looking a bit overstretched.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Of course, cautionary tales are as much a part of the narrative as happy ones.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2017
• There’s no scorching romance at the heart of this narrative.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2019
• Should new monuments be built to honor those left out of the narrative?
  — John Hammontree | [e-mail], al.com, 22 July 2019
• Hungry fans will always want to know more of the breakup narrative, which the track does provide.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2022
• Rumors spread, most in his favor, and the narrative was no longer mine.
  — Hannah V. Sawyerr, Essence, 2 Aug. 2023
• So coming up with this story sort of changes that narrative.
  — Seth Onyango, Quartz, 30 July 2021
• That is, forests, farming and layers of soil hide the deep-time narrative.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
• But the post-credits scene gives us a good reason to distrust that narrative.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 25 June 2018
• That’s not to say that nuancing our old narratives is easy.
  — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023

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narrative

2 of 2 adjective

• Well, the reception of their work is one of the narrative threads of the book.
  — Natalie Daher, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2018
• The world does change, and that means narrative forms change with it.
  — Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2019
• Tell me about the process of coming up with the the narrative thread in your segment.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• This section has a narrative verve that the other parts of the book lack.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• None of it makes much sense in a narrative frame, but that seems beside the point.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2020
• And we must not be deluded by the narrative logic of a fairy tale.
  — Sasha Dovzhyk, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
• Marquee battles are at the narrative heart of both movies.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 13 Nov. 2018
• In the second half of the season, this show makes a lot of bad narrative choices, too.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
• That loss of narrative drive aside, there’s much pleasure to be had alongside the food for thought.
  — Bob Verini, Variety, 6 June 2022
• The stories are told in narrative form and through letters, poems and even lists.
  — NBC News, 17 Aug. 2020
• For all the goings on, the first five episodes don’t exactly build up a narrative head of steam.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• In a sense, the TV show's talking heads are much closer to the narrative style of the book.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 13 May 2022
• Our attitude is that what first needs to happen is a narrative shift.
  — Jackie Bischof, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2021
• The film is told in mini-narrative arcs for each character.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• This may be a side effect of the narrative voice Wheeler has chosen.
  — Christine Pivovar, kansascity, 25 Aug. 2017
• Hard to pull off onscreen without a narrative voice-over track.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The lack of narrative invention is only a single issue in a film filled with them.
  — Vulture, 22 May 2023
• In a narrative way, I was obsessed with the order of the songs, what song came after what.
  — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 12 May 2023
• The Waste Land is an anti-narrative, a grab bag of images that pop in and out of the void.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2022
• The tale is narrated by the child, a narrative decision that was brilliant and brave.
  — Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• With more narrative freedom, the Kens might have ruled with more menace.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• For me, the sweet spot is ten hours or shorter and most of the timefiction or narrative nonfiction.
  — Rebecca Worby, Outside Online, 24 Feb. 2022
• Still, the fun tracks fit into the album’s narrative arc of letting go and feeling free.
  — Deasia Paige, ELLE, 2 Aug. 2022
• Loose ends are left untied, and dead ends lurk around narrative corners.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022
• Seeing everything through one pair of narrative eyes limits what the show can achieve on stage.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2022
• His job is a constant reminder that life has no narrative logic.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• Because your clips are non-narrative, your viewers have little to go on in terms of you, the poster.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2020
• Everything is drawn with the broad-strokes shorthand of a music video, where narrative depth is rarely the point.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2021
• Without Lott, there would be no counter-narrative for those who have come to need one.
  — Mike Spies, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2022
• With this film there is also a mixture of things that interests me on a narrative level.
  — Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021

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