How to use "anecdote" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "anecdote" in popular movie and book plots

  • Later, when they finally understand they were fooled they decide to keep this embarrassing anecdote a secret.  - The Seven Swabians
  • The anecdote of the show depicts incidences in the life of mother and the daughter following the entry of Siddharth Raj Khurana.  - Jamai Raja (TV series)
  • A famous anecdote is that Pythagoras heard the cry of his dead friend in the bark of a dog.  - Le Quattro Volte
  • Charlotte implies she knows that Hilly is the subject of the pie anecdote and orders her off the property.  - The Help (film)
  • In it is an anecdote that tells how Eliza and Virgil evaded capture by donning disguises at a traveling circus with a Krusty-type clown.  - The Color Yellow
  • Marks’ first anecdote takes place in the prehistoric age.  - The Nine Ages of Nakedness
  • She came up with the plan to blackmail Rosaleen after hearing Major Porter's anecdote from Jeremy.  - Taken at the Flood
  • , and Sybil drunkenly recounts an anecdote about "Uncle Ted and his crate of brown ale".  - Gourmet Night
  • Exhausted, he slumps into a seat and dies, as he refers to an anecdote about a man who died unnoticed on a train.  - Collateral (film)
  • The doctor from whom Lord Peter originally heard the anecdote has moved on and is not grateful to be vindicated.  - Unnatural Death

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