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noun

raconteur

a person skilled in telling anecdotes

In a sentence

Six example sentences with raconteur, each labelled with its topic.

  • The guide was a fine raconteur, and half the group booked a second week just to hear more stories.

    Travel

  • Between songs the bandleader turned raconteur, filling ten minutes with tales of a tour bus that broke down twice.

    Music

  • A good raconteur behind the counter can make a queue forget the wait, one kitchen disaster at a time.

    Cooking

  • The retired center is a raconteur whose locker room stories run longer than the games he played in.

    Basketball

  • Boswell painted Johnson as the great raconteur of his age, a man whose table talk filled a thousand pages.

    Literature

  • The sales director is a natural raconteur, and clients who came for a demo leave repeating his story about the fax machine.

    Business

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