Sentence examples for made-up tale from inspiring English sources
Residence status was granted to the Honduran boy who charmed New York City two years ago with a made-up tale of walking to New York to find his father.
Or maybe it's merely a just-so story, a made-up tale stuck into the Bible by ancient Israelites to explain why they didn't practice child sacrifice, even though neighboring tribes did.
Cal is hardly in need of made-up tales, however; the stories his father's shipmates tell are, if anything, more thrilling.
Danny wears a wedding ring, which he accessorizes with made-up tales of extreme marital woe to ensure an endless string of no-strings hookups.
Mama knew the art of making ghosts live and, conversely, was very good at annihilating those close to her, drowning them in the monstrous torrents of her made-up tales.
In "The Junction" the narrator recalls a warm household where his made-up tales of railroad work won the sympathy of the housewife, and a splendid meal, all of which came to an abrupt end when the husband, himself a railroad man, chased him out with a gun.
My Dad had died when I was young, and I'd always been susceptible to songs with references to mortality such as Terry Jacks's Seasons in the Sun and the Shangri-Las' The Leader of the Pack – both made-up tales; there was something more real and troubling about Joy Division's New Dawn Fades.
Many of the songs from The Slim Shady LP are written from the perspective of Eminem's alter ego, Slim Shady, and contain cartoonish and over-the-top depictions of violence, which he refers to as "made-up tales of trailer-park stuff".
EBay Tale Garners Merit 07.12.02 The auction site's PR maven receives achievement award for spreading a made-up story for attention.
This is a made-up story".
