The pilot had agreed, apparently believing the far-fetched story of a gas leak.

A. It's the kind of far-fetched story you might hear on a walking tour, but the article is not that far off.

As the Baron, Pearl would tell far-fetched stories with a comic German accent.

One of them kisses me as if I had won a prize for the most amusing and far-fetched story of the evening.

One day, when he fails to deliver an essay for class, he spins out a far-fetched story about having had to visit his hospitalized father.

"For him to say don't do drugs, then to say he did it but he didn't inhale, that's a kind of far-fetched story," Jennifer said.

I don't know what line Peter gave you, but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing.

"And now you're going to blackmail me with this far-fetched story?"

"You're asking me to believe in a pretty far-fetched story, when Occam's razor demands a much simpler explanation."

But even if those far-fetched stories weren't widely believed, there still remained a solid undercurrent of disdain toward their distant rulers.