Thesaurus results for NARRATE

narrate

verb

ˈner-ˌāt

as in to describe

to give an oral or written account of in some detail got a CD of the best-selling children's story that happened to be narrated by the author herself

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Recent Examples of narrate If Wharton’s Undine studied the society pages to understand how public life was narrated, Gevinson belongs to a generation that learned to narrate itself directly. —

Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026 When the set was ready, fans heard a story (narrated by Karol in Spanish, and projected onto the screens in English) about a girl who had to break from social expectations to find her voice, and who used that strength to create light, water, fire, and valleys. —

Vanessa Diaz, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2026 Attenborough narrates for the BBC, but the American version released on the Discovery Channel was recut with voice work by Alec Baldwin. —

David Faris, TheWeek, 13 Apr. 2026 Virgos are known to process things internally, constantly observing and analyzing behavior and patterns, and Zendaya channels this almost effortlessly into a character who narrates her experiences with a brutally honest level of self-awareness while navigating addiction, grief and depression. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for narrate

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Former clients described Motta encouraging people to get surgeries, and others discussed one particularly shameless episode in which a large church van, crammed with prospective plaintiffs, intentionally collided with a truck.

— Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
They were described as an elderly couple, the CHP said.

— Brandon Downs, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026