She's good at creating the narrative of a crime.

It was his lengthy narrative that bored me to death.

She gave a narrative of her strange experience.

The old man's narrative was punctuated by coughs.

When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Her poems subvert the dominant narrative of "Western civilization."

Compiled and co-edited by Maria Ebrahimji and Zahra Suratwala, the book "I Speak for Myself" contains first-person narratives by 40 Muslim women born and raised in the United States who, as the editors point out, have been "negotiating a dichotomy of Islamic and Western values since birth."

This opening chapter will seem to the reader to have nothing to do with my narrative; and yet there would have been no narrative without it, for it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

He never lets facts get in the way of his narrative.

Even his everyday speech was an off-the-cuff, tangential, disjointed narrative.