tale in a sentence

How to use the word tale in a sentence

In fact, the whole tawdry tale is fairly simple.

The tale follows the theme of the doppelg nger and is written in a style based on rationality.

His book begins with a tale of country life.

His tale came home to me.

He wrote this fairy tale by himself.

She tells her tale of misery to everyone she meets.

A tale never loses in the telling.

there’s a tale behind that, for that place.

You couldn’t tell it by looking, but she has the legendary tale of having eaten two whole cakes when a child.

The Nightingale Samurai A samurai tale full of humanity and humour.

He listened to my tale of woe.

He spun a tale of his adventures.

She was absorbed in reading a fairy tale.

I didn’t credit that absurd tale.

The numbers tell a heartening tale.

A pat humorous tale may sometimes arouse a big laugh.

And so their tale is a bittersweet ballad of love and hate.

Baine’s tale is both intriguing and repulsive.

Each tale has the timeless quality of fable.

He bore a tale of woe from the Old World.

He wove a fascinating tale of knights in shining armour.

Her latest novel is a searing tale of love and hate.

I asked how he was and he gave me a real tale of woe.

I digress. My tale does not primarily concern itself with the hen.

I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.

I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.

If in fairy tale princess the dream awaked, how she should survive?

In truth, though, neither emerges from this tale with great credit.

It is a thrilling tale of a haunted house and the ghosts therein.

It tells a tale of a waif who was educated into being a lady.

It’s the usual squalid rock star tale of drugs, sex and overdoses.

She told us a harrowing tale of misfortunes.

She’d concocted some unlikely tale about the train being cancelled.

The author translated the fairy tale into our mother tongue.

The convoluted tale grows thin long before it comes to rest.

The following tale will clearly illustrate this point.

The mendacious beggar told a different tale of woe at every house.

The play is described as ‘a rollicking tale about love and lust’.

The production is a modern staging of the fairy tale ‘Cinderella’.

The tale was long, but brimful of interest.

The team’s tale of woe continued on Saturday .

They can’t work off that tale on us.

This is a fairy tale full of childishness and playfulness.

This is a tale of jealousy and thwarted ambitions.

This tale was collected in the Louisiana Creole colloquial speech.

Winter morning, a tree covered with glaze, as the fairy tale world.

Wits and guts – a plucky young woman’s tale of escape.

Gilliam’s movie is a modern-day fairy tale.

He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale.

She was like a princess in a fairy tale.

The children put on a play adapted from a Russian folk tale.

The world is not so much a fairy tale.

There’s an interesting postscript to this tale.

This is a gruesome and heavily symbolic tale.

What he said sounded like a fairy tale.

You might feel as if you are in a fairy tale.

Is there anybody who can tell a fairy tale?

Is there anyone who can tell a fairy tale?

This a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley for ever.

The award-winning film updates a Tolstoy tale about Russian soldiers.

The classic tale of Jekyll and Hyde is both a mystery and a psychological thriller.

This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley for ever.

Her tale has a consciously youthful tone and storyline, combined with a sly humour.

This tale of tough breaks in Tinseltown is probably autobiographical.

When people awaken during REM sleep they describe bizarre and illegical tale – dream.

It is a bizarre tale and the author hits just the right note of horror and disbelief.

An old tale tells of a holy priest who visited his nephew, a scurrilous tavern-keeper.

You two are the prince and princess in a fairy tale and may you live happily everafter!

This film is the latest incarnation of a fairy tale that dates back to the Middle Ages.

The denial of the Holocaust is the latest twist in this tale of conspiracy and deception.

The movie is a moral tale about a misogynist who dies and is reborn as a beautiful woman.

He carefully recounts the tale, the microscopic details of those crucial minutes.

Original novel, fairy tale, cartoon, and cyclopedic book all achieve great success.

I expect he was telling a tale, but even this made him a very disagreeable character.

My tale, my story here in Japan is kind of a serendipitous adventure, outrageous luck.

Ten hours to Inverness, farthest of all – details he learned for an unwritten tale.

The author extracts the maximum from every carefully-crafted scene in this witty tale.

Certainly, he seemed strangely quiet and bemused as he recounted the extraordinary tale.

This time around, it is young Stevie Taggart, a former street urchin, who tells the tale.

In 1893 a famous composer, Engelbert Humperdinck, wrote an opera based on the fairy tale.

It was only after they were married that she began to see the flip side of the fairy tale.

It was a ghastly and awe-inspiring tale..