"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Faith Ringgold's "story quilts" are an enchanting blend of made-up tales and paintings, done on stitched canvas bordered with patchwork and - except for recent ones - written narrative.
- I expect it's all made-up tales, really.
- The 13-year-old Honduran boy told a heart-rending, though made-up, tale to strangers he met in Miami, who bought him a bus ticket to New York City.
- How can a made-up tale of rivalry and opportunism beat the backstage melodrama of bringing "Waterworld" to the screen?
- The normally dour servant glanced at Hari, as if convinced that this must be a made-up tale.
- Residence status was granted to the Honduran boy who charmed New York City two years ago with a made-up tale of walking to New York to find his father.
- A blend of made-up tales, ancestral sewing techniques, faux-naive folk art and the sophisticated language of French modernism, the story quilts are nothing short of wonderful.
- To pass the time, she whispered a story to Tao Ni, a made-up tale of a battle between evil pirates and brave, honest sailors.
- And this the more because his nephew (he whom thou didst beguile; I partly guess how) told him a made-up tale how all was done by the spells of Agatha.
- He saw the guileless expression on this young man's face and looked at his son, thinking that this was no made-up tale.
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