Narrate

narrate
verb, transitive. To give a spoken or written account of. Often, as "be narrated." To provide a spoken commentary to accompany a film, broadcast, piece of music, etc.

Not everyone had entered the room when Curt began to narrate the series of events that had led to the accident.

"I was waiting for Joe to signal, then for Chris to move the van into line. My foot slipped off the brake pedal--I don't know why I didn't engage the parking brake; shift into neutral; whatever.... Before I knew it, the hood was buried in the side of Lee's trailer!"

No one said anything. The men stole glances at each other, then looked at the floor or their feet. No one would look at Curt. Was he fishing for sympathy, or hoping that someone would offer an explanation that he could use as an excuse? If so, he was asking the wrong crowd. Every man present had been inconvenienced or harmed by Curt's laziness, carelessness or both. He may have had friends in his private life, but he didn't at work.

"So, how do we deal with this?" he finally went on, looking around the circle of downturned faces. "What's the procedure?"

"There's no 'we' dealing with this," Lee snarled. "You caused the accident; you find the boss and confess." There was a rustle of winter clothing as the group nodded agreement and shuffled in preparation for going back outside to deal with the vehicles. If anyone had looked at Curt, they would have seen his face pale.

Definitions adapted from The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005 (eBook Edition, copyright 2008), and from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1965, depending on which is more convenient to hand.