How to Use retell in a Sentence

retell

verb

• The movie retells the story of Romeo and Juliet.
• Of course, the video quickly aims to retell a much longer story.
  — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 8 Nov. 2019
• What was the process of curating and retelling the story of The Supremes through style over words?
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2019
• This will surely be a story for the couples to retell over the years ahead.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 21 May 2020
• The Bible instructs Jews to retell the story of Esther each Purim.
  — Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
• No one would need a show that retold the same blockbuster movie.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 28 Jan. 2024
• Her maid Ellen Bird was one of the survivors who got on a lifeboat and was later able to retell the encounter.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• Isbell’s arc has been told and retold, from yours truly to The New York Times.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 9 Apr. 2023
• Find a case study that can be retold in a light and engaging way.
  — Lisa Bennett, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• These are the stories that have to be told and retold, honored and cherished.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• As the driver would later retell in a court filing, the nurse assured him the answer was no.
  — USA Today, 1 Nov. 2021
• For the rest of the season the Mavericks broadcast crew made sure to point out the Thompsons and retell their story.
  — Dallas News, 11 June 2021
• The movie will retell the story of Peter Pan, one of the fan-favorites from the Disney collection.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2020
• Nat Geo’s biodrama series switches over to the world of music to retell the life of Aretha Franklin.
  — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2021
• And retell for us, really, the steps that the company had to go through to get this out into the market.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023
• Society of the Snow aims to retell the story of the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• As ever after, it's written by the winners, the Greeks who have won a war with the Persians (retold in the film 300).
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2020
• Just hearing the story retold feels like too much, right?
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• Hulu isn't the first platform to retell the disturbing case at Sarah Lawrence and its ringleader.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
• As seen in the film’s trailer, a mix of live action and animation is used to retell the story.
  — al, 27 Oct. 2021
• Alfie Koman, a shy matzah, tries to retell the story of Passover, but the school sourdough, Loaf, takes over and stirs trouble.
  — Penny Schwartz, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• What inspired you to retell the story of Hamlet in the context of modern Turkey?
  — Jd Linville, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• One way to retell the story was to go over-the-top — showing the bloody underwater crime scene and limbs being hacked off.
  — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021
• These are the kind of holidays that prompt stories that will be retold for a lifetime.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• Those in Canyons Village can take in live music while retelling stories of the day’s adventures on the slopes at Après Pendry.
  — William Curtis, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
• So, this really is the end — unless James plans to retell it once again, from the point of view of the housekeeper, the bodyguard — or the riding crop.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• On that call with Letterman, Jack retold a famous story about a beaver from the show.
  — Mike Wagner, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• Maybe playing a round of cards, or retelling stories from past trips, or just doing nothing.
  — Priya Krishna, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2019
• The saga of pro wrestling’s Chris Candido and Tammy Sytch is retold in the season premiere.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• Yet Betts’s method of retelling the stories of others is not merely an aesthetic choice.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024