How to Use retelling in a Sentence

retelling

noun

• Then the snap … but there Allen’s retelling trailed off.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
• And in the new retelling, that badassery is clear from the very first moments.
  — Patricia Alfonso Tortolani, Allure, 18 Mar. 2025
• It’s not my retelling of an episode from The Decameron.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• The film is a retelling of the story of Michael Oher, which was believed to be true at the time.
  — Gerald Nesmith, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
• The silent movie was the retelling of Reconstruction through the eyes of the Ku Klux Klan.
  — Russell Contreras, Fortune, 30 July 2019
• The act of retelling doesn’t apply only to stories from the past.
  — Maya Chung, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
• Many heaped praise on the production, based on GQ’s retelling of the events.
  — Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Clash of the Titans, a retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Perseus and Medusa, was just such a movie.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 8 June 2021
• Just as Erika told them the car flipped five times, Kyle and Dorit up it to six in the retelling.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2021
• The play is an irreverent retelling of the lives of the Brontës.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2023
• The movie is not a live-action of the classic fairytale, but a new retelling of it.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 7 June 2019
• At this point in the retelling of the story, Brett pauses for effect.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 8 July 2018
• The project is a modern-day retelling of Ruth and Boaz, one of the most iconic love stories in the Bible.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 6 May 2024
• The last part of the play is in many ways a retelling of Ulysses's return home in The Odyssey, though Parks plays with the story a bit.
  — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 13 June 2018
• Lannin’s name rarely gets mentioned in the retelling of Red Sox lore.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2021
• The memoir is largely a glowing retelling of her time at the White House.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• Moments big and small receive the same, vivid retelling.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
• So this is both the retelling of the dream and his past in Philadelphia all over again.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• Hulu's true crime series isn't the first retelling of the story.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
• In one retelling, Zeus’s dear dog was stolen by the mortal Pandareus.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 16 June 2022
• Some of the films are a straightforward retelling of the original.
  — Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg.com, 7 Apr. 2020
• As the years passed, the story grew more elaborate with each retelling.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• There’s something to be said for a retelling of the history through the points of view of Jones, Tripp and Lewinsky.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
• Trudeau told the other leaders, dropping his hand down from his chin in the retelling.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2019
• The play is, in essence, a pretty much verbatim retelling of the film, which is both a strength and a weakness.
  — EW.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• The story will be a modern retelling of Austen's novel.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 2 May 2021
• But the movie version isn't a direct retelling of Lyon's book.
  — EW.com, 21 June 2024
• Yet, in Bourdain’s retelling of events, Soper is no hero.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
• The movie, a dazzling retelling of a mythic boy-god, has grossed an astonishing US$2 billion worldwide, outperforming many Hollywood releases.
  — Shaoyu Yuan, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2025
• There is a very large portion of the cinematic/television market that’s ignored in the mainstream press, productions that focus on Christianity, namely the retelling of literal Bible stories.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025