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Narrate

verb

(past & past part. narrated; pres. part. narrating)

Provide commentary for a film, for example.

Narrate or give a detailed account of. Synonyms: recite, recount, tell. "The father told a story to his child"

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"Narrate" Quotes from Famous Books

... mother, there—the whole affair is a tribute to your sagacity, if you will only permit me to narrate it to you. I say that this fellow Fane, when walking with his patron's brother, stupid Jack, had me pointed out to him in town one day as the man who had 'pulled him through,' as he called it. Can you ...

— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

... now narrate my proceedings at the mountain of Singe, from which I have just returned. The mountain, with its groves of fruit-trees, has been already described; and as a preface to my present description, I must particularize the circumstances ...

— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel

... two dead chickens, half a dozen ears of corn, and a quantity of apples and pears—a sure proof that he had secretly been plundering some farmer. He began to munch one of the apples, and the boys took advantage of the opportunity to narrate their adventures ...

— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon

... Above his head are the remains of an inscription which must have been continued on the next brick. The word warriors may still be deciphered.[380] This figure may have formed part of some attempt on the part of the decorator to narrate in colour some of the exploits of the king for whom the ...

— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot

... U., p. 355.) Not those studies which are driest, dullest, and most disagreeable should be selected upon which to awaken the mental forces of a child, but those which naturally arouse his interest and prompt him to a lively exercise of his powers. For children of the third and fourth grade to narrate the story of the Golden Fleece is a more suitable exercise than to memorize the CXIXth ...

— The Elements of General Method - Based on the Principles of Herbart • Charles A. McMurry

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