Sentence examples for dubious treasure from inspiring English sources
Only after the patriarch has been able to steal a cache of party presents, including gift-wrapped insecticide, and trade them for dubious treasure (zebra intestines and three cups of rice) is it clear that Mr. Akpan is not striving for surreal effects.
They cannot any longer coldly keep hold of artistic treasures that were acquired in dubious circumstances a long time ago.
So the waste of millions, along with some industrial byproducts of dubious origin, still flows into the waterways once treasured by Paulistanos.
One Italian cheesemaker told me that the animals first came to Italy when Hannibal used them to carry his war treasure back from Asia — a story that is historically dubious but does manage to capture the cheese's almost mythic exoticism.
(That's the treasure hunter who usually gives you evolution items like the Dubious Disc and Electirizer).
And the age of the pirates threw up its share of dubious heroes whose exploits found their way into popular culture via books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
