Sentence examples for extravagant stories from inspiring English sources

It's important to try and stand out, but extravagant stories won't impress an admissions team.

Did I have the vague feeling that "a strange traveller" might show up and tell "extravagant stories" over a meal of fresh rabbit?

He broke out of the brush months later with hundreds of artifacts and extravagant stories of how ancient people worshipped their simian deity.

This was owing to a kind of heterosexual solidarity; women, in many public baths, were an absolute minority and it wasn't uncommon to hear extravagant stories of attacks and harassment, even though, truth is, those tales weren't very credible.

To start with, he took his cue from jokey relatives, relishing extravagant stories and turning himself into a brilliant mimic: it was an effective way of making friends and influencing people.

She stayed on pitch and grew unnervingly quiet in the end verses of the Bessie Smith, turning the song, about refusing a rough man's advances, into an extravagant story.

Less than a hundred pages long, the tale has the advantage of a relatively clear, if extravagant, story line and a distinct satiric point — i.e., that the Irish Republic's official cherishing of the nearly extinct Gaelic language ignores the miserable poverty of its surviving speakers, the rain-battered peasantry of the countryside.

Regarding the group's name, "There's no extravagant story behind it but it's really fun to play with when people ask and they want to know who the fifth Knife is," M'Queen said with another laugh, then telling her interviewer, "Well, you can be the fifth Knife today".

THERE it was: an exhilarating, skylit expanse ringed by a cascade of ivy-festooned balconies, stacked tier upon tier for an extravagant 22 stories.

Benny sends out an extravagant press story to publicize the deal, saying he paid $100,000 for the story.

But the XFL might also find it difficult to recreate the extravagant, cartoonish story lines that make professional wrestling so popular, he said, given that there are 22 players on the field at a time, camouflaged by their uniforms.