"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
(48) Italian, German
Kolokacji: 2
(49) bleak, Unfinished
Kolokacji: 2
(50) surreal, futuristic
Kolokacji: 2
(51) fine, gritty, harsh
Kolokacji: 3
1. fine tale = wyważona opowieść fine tale
2. gritty tale = naturalistyczna opowieść gritty tale
3. harsh tale = surowa opowieść harsh tale
  • But the Good Samaritan fables, rather than the harsher Darwinian tales, with their callous hawks and ambitious donkeys, often attract readers today.
  • What we saw, through rippling static, was a harsh tale of rapid deterioration.
  • Former detainees have given disparate accounts of their treatment, with the harshest tales, predictably, emerging from the isolation cells.
  • The saga of the Farmington Canal serves as a reminder that history more often than not has a harsh tale to tell.
  • A three-course candlelit affair of salad, salmon, potato casserole, grilled vegetables and crumble was washed down with harsh Canadian tales of the great outdoors.
  • Brecht drew on a 1925 German translation of that play for his 1944 "Caucasian Chalk Circle," a harsh tale of what war, greed, poverty and fear do to people.
  • This is the harsh tale of an unloved man nicknamed by his class "the Hitler of the lower fifth" and "the Crock."
  • Stony rebel graves along the hillsides, fluttering with the green flags of martyrdom, tell their own harsh tale.
  • The harsh tale of an abusive relationship between a man and his cat - who steals his women and drugs, kills his mobster boss, and altogether terrorizes him.
  • An hour, an actor, a harsh tale told quietly.
(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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