Sentence examples for as a rumour from inspiring English sources

4'33 might be regarded as a rumour as much as it is a composition to be experienced.

Of all the secrets of war, there is one that is so well kept that it exists mostly as a rumour.

He added he had treated Kazakhstan's possible ban from Rio Olympic weightlifting as "a rumour" and was not distracted from training.

Europeans had known peacocks since ancient times the bible puts them in King Solomon's court but before the printing press and photography, commoners knew them only as a rumour, like the unicorn.

(One new problem of shock and new media is that so often it exists only as a rumour: a work can be freely condemned without being either seen or read).

Some prominent outters claimed over Christmas they would get two-thirds of Tory MPs to their side, but the Vote Leave campaign now dismiss this as a rumour spread by the remain camp.

A spokesman for the Nigerian army dismissed Amnesty's report as a "rumours and allegations".

A spokesman dismissed Amnesty's report as a "rumours and allegations", adding: "They just want to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

Many look for further consolidation in the industry, but David S Smith is continuing to suffer, as a rumoured bid has yet to appear.

Gordon Coates (Coppola's slow boat on the Nung, Film & Music, October 17) referred to the "holy grail" of film collecting as a "rumoured 289-minute version of Francis Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now", adding that the film's producers denied the existence of this long version.

Blunt is rumoured to be in contention to play Mary Poppins in the upcoming sequel, but she won't budge, dismissing it as merely a rumour.