Sentence examples for a widespread tale from inspiring English sources

A widespread tale is that one of the perpetrators of this fraud was a man named Josh Tatum, who would go into a store, select an item costing five cents or less, and offer the gold-plated piece in payment and many clerks gave him $4.95 in change.

The agency also debunks the widespread tale of the Klingerman Virus, a toxic sponge supposedly mailed in blue envelopes to people at random.

Explaining these away, Mr. Morgan said that he was merely repeating widespread tales from the "Fleet Street rumor mill" that hacking "went a lot further" than Mr. Goodman's case.

The impression that the reader gets is both excitingly diverse and depressingly familiar: tales of human ingenuity in the face of extreme climatic shift, but also tales of a widespread tendency to screw up the immediate environment (as with the Mesolithic visitors to Colonsay, who processed hazelnuts in such industrial quantities that the crop never recovered).

Rituals involving lycanthropy appeared in ancient Greek religion, and tales of men turning into wolves under the light of the full moon were a widespread European superstition.

Displacement is a widespread practice.

Claims that a pro-Kremlin group funded a vast network of online activists to create the illusion of widespread support for Vladimir Putin may seem like a bizarre tale restricted to an authoritarian state.

"The Lottery," a chilling tale whose meaning has been much debated, provoked widespread public outrage when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948.

And such is the frenzy of the current chase that parts of the press want to transform an already shocking tale of "ordinary", widespread, often systematic abuse by teachers, social workers and relatives, given spurious authority by the appalling Paedophile Information Exchange, into a celebrity trophy hunt.

(A) The traditional demarcation of a TALE repeat.

NIBBLES A Green Tale.