How to Use oral history in a Sentence

oral history

noun

• I'm reading an oral history of the Great Depression.
• Check out The Times’ oral history of this landmark show.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• This is what inspired me to use film as a way to preserve oral history.
  — Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• The story is based on an oral history of the Chemehuevi tribe.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 June 2022
• Readers, start your engines, and may the best oral history (wipes mouth) win!
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
• Set largely in the 1970s, the novel is rendered as an oral history, the story of the slow-then-fast rise and sudden fall of a rock band.
  — Robert Lloydtelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• At some point, decades from now, the Cavs may put out their own oral history for how the barking truly began.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
• Head over to Vanity Fair’s website to read the full excerpt from the oral history.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Oct. 2022
• The oral histories of many present-day tribes link their ancestors to earthen mounds.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023
• In the oral history, Mr. Johnson recalled boarding and seeing the plane’s name painted on the side.
  — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Read about the oral histories here: Read about oral histories here.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, tovlou.github.io, 20 July 2023
• That same year Knight and the Peaky Blinders cast did a group interview with Esquire to give an oral history of the series.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
• Rather’s oral history was recorded in his office in New York City.
  — Terry Scott Bertling, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021
• The oral history will include interviews with everyone who has played in the Hold Steady, as well as those who’ve worked with the band through the past two decades.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
• This is a six-part oral history that will essentially detail the making of the film.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 10 Jan. 2022
• If nothing else, Rayman and Blau’s oral history turns the volume up.
  — Reginald Dwayne Betts, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• The book is based on interviews for an oral history project that Newman and some of those closest to him undertook in the mid '80s.
  — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2022
• Head over to Vulture’s website to read the oral history in its entirety.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 July 2022
• With The Shield turning 20, EW chatted with the creative team and cast for the definitive oral history.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• The book flows like an oral history and has the intimate feel of an old group of friends sharing stories at the end of a party, long after most guests have left.
  — Julius Constantine Motal, NBC News, 25 July 2022
• Told in the structure of an oral history, the story even includes original song lyrics.
  — ELLE, 30 Dec. 2021
• For the intervening 87 years, the story lived on as oral history.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• But as the oral history reveals, the actor wasn’t as eager as his fellow cast or the crew about Lucas’ presence.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Nov. 2023
• Orloff and his team also pored over oral history interviews with the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• As Andy Greene’s oral history makes clear, the classic result belies the seat-of-the-pants execution.
  — Longreads, 4 Aug. 2023
• During an oral history interview decades later, a man named Low recalled how bad things were back in the 50s.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• According to oral history, the Guthries were so fond of Amy that her former enslavers visited her after the war.
  — Nicholas P. Brown, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• For more inside information about the final season and the show as a whole, check out EW's full Search Party oral history.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2022
• Her mother had passed on a fairly detailed oral history.
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2023
• Not to be left out, the original Penny — Amanda Walsh — was also interviewed for the oral history.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024