Retelling is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Retelling meaning
present participle and gerund of retell
Using Retelling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of retell
- In the example corpus, retelling often appears in combinations such as: retelling of, retelling the, the retelling.
Context around Retelling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Retelling
- In this selection, "retelling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, day, dramatic, straight, classic and renfield stand out and add context to how "retelling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a retelling of the and a stark retelling of western. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "retelling" sits close to words such as allianz, ancillary and bastion, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with retelling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An Iliad is a modern-day retelling of Homer’s classic. (11 words)
Composer Demutsky creates a sumptuous score for the dramatic retelling of this classic tale. (14 words)
Instead, "Bubble" was a sci-fi retelling of "The Little Mermaid" featuring teenage romance and parkour. (16 words)
That’s to be expected of a Soulslike action-RPG, sure, but even after over 20 hours of game time, this steam-goth retelling of has really been doing me in due to one particular problem: the clunky dodge mechanic. (40 words)
The new episodes have no narrator, although an image of Robert Stack remains in the opening, and each episode is a documentary-styled retelling of a single mystery, as the show tries to speculate on what might have happened. (39 words)
Their perspective is reminiscent of Murray’s retelling of how Gobert confidently waved off a Jokic double team after the Nuggets center caught the ball on the low block during a contest against the Jazz in 2022. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
And if they don’t want to be stuck in the past, doing nostalgia porn, maybe they should stop recasting legacy characters and retelling classic stories.
An Iliad is a modern-day retelling of Homer’s classic.
A retelling of the 80s cartoon, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power follows Adora on her quest to overthrow the forces of evil and save her home planet Etheria.
Composer Demutsky creates a sumptuous score for the dramatic retelling of this classic tale.
Directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco, Young Guns is a retelling of the adventures of Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War, which took place in New Mexico during 1877–78.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the upcoming title are two parts of a trilogy that tackles the game itself again, but these games come at it from a new angle rather than a straight retelling.
Her retelling of “David Copperfield” is set far from Hawaii in the western corner of Virginia at the start of the opioid epidemic.
Instead, "Bubble" was a sci-fi retelling of "The Little Mermaid" featuring teenage romance and parkour.
In the very same scene in which Scorsese has his cameo, another huge star is right beside him - legendary guitarist plays one of the radio show actors in the retelling of the Osage murders case.
In this tongue-in-cheek retelling, Renfield is willing to serve Dracula because the bugs that he eats give him superpowers - a twist that risks turning this oddball gothic comedy into a more genetic superhero story.
It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
King and Gerads have the mighty task of presenting another retelling of the first encounter between Batman and Joker, and the duo delivers the first chapter in what's already an all-time terrifying Joker story.
New York, however, is a city that gets all noisy about how to pronounce “How-stun” Street, retelling it like your great-uncle works into untold conversations the time he rode an elevator with Kay Ballard.
Once fans accepted that Alice was not part of the plan, they were treated to an entertaining retelling of the Umbrella Corporation destroying the world with T-Virus bioweapons.
Retelling his memorable encounter with Wizkid, "I woke up in the morning, I saw a message at 7 am, I saw Machala.
That series was based on the court transcripts, but now it looks like the BBC might be developing another retelling.
That’s to be expected of a Soulslike action-RPG, sure, but even after over 20 hours of game time, this steam-goth retelling of has really been doing me in due to one particular problem: the clunky dodge mechanic.
Their perspective is reminiscent of Murray’s retelling of how Gobert confidently waved off a Jokic double team after the Nuggets center caught the ball on the low block during a contest against the Jazz in 2022.
The musical retelling of the Bible story ran for 747 performances and was adapted into a 1999 movie starring Donny Osmond.
The new episodes have no narrator, although an image of Robert Stack remains in the opening, and each episode is a documentary-styled retelling of a single mystery, as the show tries to speculate on what might have happened.
Common combinations with retelling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- retelling of 88×
- retelling the 13×
- the retelling 10×
- is retelling 8×
- and retelling 4×
- retelling his 4×
- modern retelling 4×
- retelling and 4×
- dramatic retelling 3×
- to retelling 3×