tales

Example Sentences

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Sooner or later we must stop believing in fairy tales and repeated broken promises, and embrace reality again.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

But if Thompson’s noir tales are bound by the restraints of the era and genre, they are also liberated by them, and these books are surprisingly experimental.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

These are not cautionary tales about individual failure.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Most Godzilla tales present slightly different interpretations of a mythology that began with the first “Godzilla” released in 1954.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026

He and Katherine had had a book of fairy tales when they were little.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix