- plural of tale.
tales
Example Sentences
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Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Without any winking irony or condescension to our ancient forebears in storytelling, the writer-director aims to rekindle our fascination with these oft-told tales: the Trojan Horse, the Sirens’ song, Scylla and Charybdis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
She has wanted to take a crack at adapting the tales pretty much ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
It was like those old Romanian bubbe-meises my mother used to tell me, tales of Fat-Frumos venturing out to defeat the fire-breathing zmeu or save the boyar’s daughter.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
