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.
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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Meanings and Examples of TALE
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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.
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.
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.
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.
5 She left them in heated argument, speculating about the conclusion of the tale which their mother promised to finish the following night.
6 So this grim old women went on with her tale of horrors.
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.
8 Marija listened with sympathy; it was easy to believe the tale of his late starvation, for his face showed it all.
9 years previously to the period of the tale, this officer was.
10 Such a direct and palpable contradiction of the tale related by the father caused all eyes to be turned on him.
11 He arose, and told his tale without duplicity or reservation.
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.
13 But these were events of a time later than that which concerns our tale.
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.
15 The youth of this tale felt gratitude for these words of his comrade.
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.