Example sentences for: apocryphal

How can you use “apocryphal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters."

  • I have always assumed it to be totally apocryphal.

  • Robert Archibald Ford's article, “Learn to Spike Lunars” [XVIII, 4], on the late Dr. Spooner of New College, Oxford, reminded me of two, doubtless apocryphal spoonerisms attributed to him.

  • --may be apocryphal.

  • Speaking of Gentiles , there is a story (perhaps apocryphal) that the famous Israeli general and archaeologist, Yigael Yadin, once prefaced a speech at the University of Utah with the observation, You know, this is probably the only place I can come and be a Gentile!


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