"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
1. dark tale = gniewna opowieść dark tale
2. grim tale = ponura opowieść grim tale
3. sorry tale = żałosna opowieść sorry tale
4. lively tale = ożywiona opowieść lively tale
5. dismal tale = ponura opowieść dismal tale
6. gloomy tale = ponura opowieść gloomy tale
7. tedious tale = nużąca opowieść tedious tale
  • How could he-" "No offense, Micky, but the story of Dr. Doom and his multiple homicides is a dreary tale, more tedious than titillating, and it can only bring this lovely evening to a new low.
  • Proper patient behavior was described as well - stick to one doctor only, so he knows your whole history; tell your doctor all, including the embarrassing things (even you, ladies); and, our personal favorite, don't tell your doctor long, tedious tales.
  • Sara Louise Lazarus's staging displays a real floating feeling for this sort of tender-hearted adventure, and that keeps an initially tedious tale moving along.
  • The lesson here is that a modest effort can bring to an end the tedious tale of the tub.
  • This hit parade from the past is the best part of an otherwise tedious tale of a Liverpool docker's midlife crisis, which he is handling rather badly.
  • I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
  • It's a sprawling, somewhat unruly, often tedious and magnificently pictorial tale, from a Richard McKenna story.
  • The unravelling of that agreement-Zelaya is still in the Brazilian Embassy, threatened with arrest if he steps outside-is a tangled and tedious tale.
  • The man, Mr. Richer said, had an airtight memory for names, faces, coffee-drink preferences and the often tedious tales told by his customers.
  • Much of the long day was a tedious tale, not twice-told, but a tale some of the weary senators had heard and read five or six times.
8. depressing tale = przygnębiając opowieść depressing 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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