How To Use Old wives' tale In A Sentence

  • It's not true that if trees have a lot of fruit in the autumn it will be a cold winter - that's just an old wives' tale.
  • Ann Bradley dispels the old wives' tales and gives the medical facts.
  • That old wives' tale about not putting anything smaller than your elbow inside your ear? Times, Sunday Times
  • And so the old wives' tale continues.
  • Mine is a generation without old wives' tales or handy money-saving hints.
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  • A review of scientific studies compiled in Britain finds that the notion that Vitamin C wards off the common cold is nothing more than an old wives' tale.
  • A review of scientific studies compiled in Britain finds that the notion that Vitamin C wards off the common cold is nothing more than an old wives' tale.
  • Every group of people has an old wives' tale like this: When people are living happily sometime, there came a bad guy.
  • My father tells me that when he was in heder in Brooklyn, he showed the rabbi a book with pictures of dinosaurs, which the rabbi promptly declared a ‘goyishe bubbemiseh’ (gentile old wives' tale).
  • I think it's an old wives' tale that make-up ruins the skin.
  • That's only an old wives' tale.
  • Even if you don't believe that jewelry can be cursed, I've heard an old wives' tale that claims engagement rings are supposed to carry the energy of the marriage from whence they came.
  • Even if you don't believe that jewelry can be cursed, I've heard an old wives' tale that claims engagement rings are supposed to carry the energy of the marriage from whence they came.
  • Some dismiss these as myth in the sense of old wives' tales.

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