How do you use the word anecdote in a sentence?

"The writer Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) seemed to have a humorous anecdote on any subject imaginable."

"Rather than providing any substantive evidence to back up his point of view, he was only able to produce a humorous anecdote about a similar event that

(supposedly) happened to an acquaintance of his."
You can share a personal anecdote with others is an example of using anecdote in a sentence. Anecdotes are short stories that have some point