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.

  • The story of Columbus and the Madeiran archipelago is not entirely apocryphal, unlike so many other tales related to the islands.

  • Although pushiness is not a quality naturally approved of in Cornwall, neither is undue modesty: standing in his own light like the Mayor of Market Jew (another apocryphal figure).

  • I wonder now if his problem isn't that he realizes he can't be and so--to paraphrase Baldwin's famous, if apocryphal, observation--this son must kill his father.


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