TALE in a Sentence

Learn TALE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
210 example sentences for TALE, such as:
1. I didn't credit that absurd tale.
2. Half a tale is enough for a wise man.
3. Their love story sounds like a fairy tale.
4. Each tale has the timeless quality of fable.
5. A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TALE
tale
 n.  a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
 n.  a trivial lie
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  It was a tale of a time long past, and he was looking at it as though it had never happened to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
2  The narrator turned, saw a woman near and, not being a common person nor a coarse workman but a clever salesman and a householder, lowered his voice for the rest of the tale.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the nursery tale, with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be lodged, she and all her progeny.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
4  Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
5  She left them in heated argument, speculating about the conclusion of the tale which their mother promised to finish the following night.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
6  So this grim old women went on with her tale of horrors.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  Poor Elzbieta was ashamed of herself for having told so woeful a tale, and the other had to beg and plead with her to get her to go on.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
8  Marija listened with sympathy; it was easy to believe the tale of his late starvation, for his face showed it all.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
9  years previously to the period of the tale, this officer was.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
10  Such a direct and palpable contradiction of the tale related by the father caused all eyes to be turned on him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
11  He arose, and told his tale without duplicity or reservation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
12  Rich plumes nodded above his head; wampum, gorgets, bracelets, and medals, adorned his person in profusion; though his dull eye and vacant lineaments too strongly contradicted the idle tale of pride they would convey.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
13  But these were events of a time later than that which concerns our tale.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
14  They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  The youth of this tale felt gratitude for these words of his comrade.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  The author extracts the maximum from every carefully-crafted scene in this witty tale.
2  It is a bizarre tale and the author hits just the right note of horror and disbelief.
3  She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.
4  I didn't credit that absurd tale.
5  Half a tale is enough for a wise man.
6  I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.
7  He was in the middle of telling me a long tale about how he once met the Redskins' manager.
8  A good tale is none the worse for being twice told.
9  Each tale has the timeless quality of fable.
10  Gulliver's Travels, which is regarded by many as a tale for children, is actually a bitter satire attacking man's folly.
11  And he made every one of them tell him a tale every night; and he kept that up till he had hogged a thousand and one tales that way, and then he put them all in a book, and called it Domesday Book -- which was a good name and stated the case.
12  Their love story sounds like a fairy tale.
13  Each of the female quartet is physically and emotionally different, which enhances a strong historical tale.
14  Caught up in the wonder of the storyteller's tale, the rapt listeners sat motionless, hanging on his every word.
15  The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.