Sentence examples for erroneous rumor from inspiring English sources

Bryant once threatened to sue Jackson for slander, when the coach mentioned an erroneous rumor to a newspaper columnist, about Bryant's having dogged it in the early stages of high-school games, so that he could play hero in the closing minutes.

"From Rocks to Riches" (Aug. 12, p. 101) repeats the erroneous rumor that the tanzanite trade was involved with al Qaeda.

Now there isn't any real substantiating evidence to spark any wild and erroneous rumors, but it's all in the URL and a QuickTime video is evident although it's missing for now.

Others appear to be the result of erroneous, slanted and unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo from an alleged, unnamed source.

One area in particular where Mr. Obama is adding muscle is a team that is tasked with tracking down rumors and erroneous statements circulated on the Internet.

In a response, the NFA chairman Daniel Fitzpatrick responded in a letter to Burger King's parent stating that "to sever relations with the ... NFA is extremely regrettable" and based on "an erroneous set of facts, innuendo and rumor" claimed that the company owed the NFA $1.7 million in total subsidy funds.

With both Wagner and Dylan, these rumors of musical incapacity are erroneous, but the perception is telling: talent is not following the usual trajectory.

The rumor, though, turned out to be erroneous.

Activists denied that the woman fired the shots and claimed that sheriff's officials previously had made erroneous reports about protesters' actions, including passing along rumors of pipe bombs in the activists' camp.

This mistaken notion was based on rumors that circulated with the first, largely erroneous European scientific descriptions of the duck-billed platypus.

Referring to the German newspaper account, which also described specific terms that executives at both companies called erroneous, Mr. Adler said: "We are not going to comment on wild rumors and speculation.