"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
(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
1. exaggerated tale = przesadna opowieść exaggerated tale
  • Perhaps exaggerated tales, but few honest men dared the high mountains!
  • Here, he acquired a reputation for his witty and exaggerated tales; at the same time, he was considered an honest man in business affairs.
  • In among these exaggerated tales of violence lay the murky crime I was searching for.
  • He wasn't a northern lout any more, to be gulled with gross, exaggerated tales.
  • Certainly an exaggerated tale, in any event.
  • As did a lot of writers of natural history at the time, he was prone to including exaggerated tales.
  • The rebel soldiers stopped trying to impress the women with exaggerated tales of their exploits.
  • Again, like the Basus War, poetry and exaggerated tales are the main remnants of this war.
  • Blade wondered if the information was accurate or merely another exaggerated tale told by men under the influence of an intoxicating beverage.
  • They laughed and told exaggerated tales of old times.
2. extravagant tale = przesadna opowieść extravagant tale
3. far-fetched tale = naciągana opowieść far-fetched tale
(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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