"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 • ...
(3) classic, traditional
Kolokacji: 2
1. sad tale = smutna opowieść sad tale
2. tragic tale = tragiczna opowieść tragic tale
3. disturbing tale = zakłócając opowieść disturbing tale
4. woeful tale = zgnębiona opowieść woeful tale
5. bittersweet tale = opowieść psianki słodkogórz bittersweet tale
6. bitter tale = zawzięta opowieść bitter tale
7. melancholy tale = przygnębiająca opowieść melancholy tale
8. heartbreaking tale = rozdzierająca serce opowieść heartbreaking tale
9. sorrowful tale = smutna opowieść sorrowful tale
10. mournful tale = zasmucona opowieść mournful tale
  • Sylvia Patterson from The Guardian described the song as a "mournful tale of lost love feeling like a catastrophic rehab meltdown".
  • Now, stuck in Nuevo Laredo a fifth-rate joint, she recalled that night in Acapulco, and despite mournful tale she was about to relate her sense of comedy made b chuckle.
  • The pleasure we experienced upon our first glance at Quebec was greatly damped by the sad conviction that the cholera-plague raged within her walls, while the almost ceaseless tolling of bells proclaimed a mournful tale of woe and death.
  • We questioned every tribe and clan that came to us, and listened to their mournful tales.
  • She's a friend of the book's author, the journalist William Van Meter; lyrics from her song "The Party" serve as the frontispiece to his mournful tale of the rape, murder, and immolation of an innocent young co-ed in Kentucky, by local boys gone bad.
  • His public would naturally desire a ballad gazette of the mournful new tale, concerning a lass of Scottish extraction, betrayed, tortured, beheaded, at the far-off court of a Muscovite tyrant.
  • I felt so good that I drove straight back to Greek Street, and poured out a mournful tale of failure.
  • If we die, we die clinging to our tattered rights, and our blood alone shall tell the mournful tale of a murdered daughter and a ruined father.
  • Lyrics: Gather round, ye lads and lasses, set ye for a while And hearken to me mournful tale about the Emerald...
  • Only the children from their play Would pause the mournful tale to hear, Shrinking in half-alarm away, Or, step by step, would venture near To touch with timid curious hands That strange wild man from other lands.
11. tragicomic tale = tragikomiczna opowieść tragicomic tale
(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
(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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