Example sentences for: tales

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

  • Early events surrounding the Indo-Aryans can be deduced from the later writings of the Rig-Veda (priestly hymns), Puranas (ancient tales of kings and gods), and the epic poems of the Mahabharata and Ramayana.

  • The name of a folk character found in tales collected in Spain and New Mexico by Aurelio Espinosa and his son, Jose Manuel Espinosa.

  • Good reviews, for the most part, for the autobiography of one of hip-hop's most successful artists: "An amusing, contemplative memoir" that paints "a surprisingly humanistic portrait" of the crack dealer turned platinum-selling musician ( Kirkus Reviews ). The tales of his misspent youth and rise to fame are "eloquently told" (Michael Harris, the Los Angeles Times ). One reviewer splits from the pack and delivers a withering pan: "[T]he ability to sell a lot of records has almost nothing to do with insight or maturity.

  • Nolan's Fun With Canterbury Tales Extra

  • The reason for putting Brewer into the title (according to Rees) is that his book follows naturally in the tradition of ... Dictionary of Phrase and Fable [which] singled out words and phrases with tales to tell and did not attempt an unachievable comprehensiveness.


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