tales

Example Sentences

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Because either McCluskie is one heck of a con man who rolled both Becerra and Williamson, making both believe what was happening was kosher with entirely different tales, or someone isn’t being entirely honest.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

The $12 billion fund is one of the largest publicly traded business development companies, and its credit stumbles have become one of the sector’s cautionary tales.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

He told us tales of big brinjals, bright pumpkin flowers, sprite okra that grew in the farmland in what’s now Bangladesh, where he grew up.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Lori Inglis Hall delivers, in Malcolm Forbes’s words, “an engrossing novel whose twin tales have emotional depth.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

I'd grown up with the tales of Gilgamesh—there had to be hundreds.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda