How To Use tall tale In A Sentence
- A MAN accused of murdering his best friend had such a reputation as a teller of tall tales that many of the witnesses he told about the stabbing refused to believe him, a jury heard yesterday.
- Lederer says solemnly "As a word-bethumped language guy, I adhere firmly to the blooper snooper's code, taking only what I find and contriving nothing," but I believe him exactly as much as I believe a teller of tall tales who swears that this really happened. Languagehat.com: BLOOPERS.
- Tall tales were woven around the 1830 Revolution, notably to the effect that the landed aristocracy had been elbowed aside by bourgeois groups.
- We've all encountered characters with a penchant for telling tall tales.
- On two continents, they incontinently spout platitudes, nonsense, tall tales, or pseudopoetic fantasies.
- * He was actually identified as Baron Munchausen 1720–97, who was a famous fibber in real life and later became the archetype of the teller of tall tales. In the Valley of the Shadow
- The Sierra Club will also be running a full-page advertisement in CQ, The Hill, Politico, Roll Call, and the National Journal’s Congress Daily AM tomorrow that mocks the “coalition to kill clean energy jobs” as “tall tales from Washington lobbyists.” Wonk Room » MoveOn, Sierra Club Call For DOJ Investigation Of Bonner Fraud
- Calamity's an uncouth, sarsaparilla-swilling, gun-slinging frontierswoman who can shoot, scuffle, and spin tall tales as well as any man alive.
- Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale.
- No Baron Munchausen would have dared to imprison his saga within the limits of a tall tale.
