"tale" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tale sustantivo

sustantivo + tale
Kolokacji: 56
fairy tale • folk tale • Canterbury Tale • morality tale • Tale of several Cities • tale of several seamen • horror tale • tale of adventure • ...
tale + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 4
Tales series • tale spinner • tale sign • tale teller
tale + verbo
Kolokacji: 54
tale tells • tale begins • tale comes • tale goes • tale says • ...
verbo + tale
Kolokacji: 49
hear tales • write tales • listen to one's tale • spin tales • include tales • believe one's tale • tale set • tell the tale • recount the tale • ...
adjetivo + tale
Kolokacji: 262
cautionary tale • tall tale • classic tale • old tale • Weird Tale • strange tale • sad tale • true tale • ancient tale • dark tale • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 54
(3) classic, traditional
Kolokacji: 2
(13) similar, different
Kolokacji: 2
(14) Gothic, medieval, Victorian
Kolokacji: 3
(15) romantic, erotic
Kolokacji: 2
(18) popular, favorite
Kolokacji: 2
(23) lurid, shocking, sensational
Kolokacji: 3
(25) biblical, apocryphal
Kolokacji: 2
(28) Twisted, picaresque
Kolokacji: 2
(30) American, Irish
Kolokacji: 2
(31) sordid, rambling, sprawling
Kolokacji: 3
1. sordid tale = wstrętna opowieść sordid tale
2. rambling tale = rozwlekła opowieść rambling tale
3. sprawling tale = zamaszysta opowieść sprawling tale
  • The story is a sprawling tale of an alluring young actress and dancer in late 19th-century Germany whose only power in a patriarchal society is her desirability to men.
  • The highlight there is probably his most recent film The Unjust, a sprawling tale of police corruption with a genuine sense of ambivalence among the random head-poundings.
  • Mixed reviews for Rushdie's latest, a sprawling tale of rock 'n' roll mixed with ancient mythology.
  • In keeping with its frontier setting, "Shane" tells a sprawling tale straightforwardly.
  • Stuart's book, a sprawling tale about 46 members of the Tussies, a real-life family, has been called "a mountaineer version of 'Tobacco Road.' "
  • But though it is a sprawling tale that details the experiences of a group of friends in Great Neck, the book is not really about the suburb.
  • The transformation of Russia's economy is a sprawling and byzantine tale, and Brady, a former Moscow correspondent for Business Week, is well qualified to tell it.
  • It's a sprawling, somewhat unruly, often tedious and magnificently pictorial tale, from a Richard McKenna story.
  • At first, Mr. Isaacs and Ms. Mitchell thought the 20 hours originally budgeted would be sufficient to tell the sprawling tale.
  • How else can one fit such a sprawling, multilayered tale into a heroic narrative film, let alone a boxed set?
(36) contemporary, parallel
Kolokacji: 2
(37) personal, oral, final
Kolokacji: 3
(43) literary, poetic
Kolokacji: 2
(45) elaborate, particular
Kolokacji: 2
(46) whimsical, adventurous
Kolokacji: 2
(48) Italian, German
Kolokacji: 2
(49) bleak, Unfinished
Kolokacji: 2
(50) surreal, futuristic
Kolokacji: 2
(51) fine, gritty, harsh
Kolokacji: 3
(52) suspenseful, spooky
Kolokacji: 2
(53) bawdy, ribald
Kolokacji: 2
(54) folkloric, comedic
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tale
Kolokacji: 13
with tales • of tales • for tales • from tales • into a tale • ...

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