Sentence examples for oft-repeated tale from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tourangeau bristles at the oft-repeated tale -- "So ridiculous," he said -- that the $30,000 came from a bake sale.

In this latest version of the oft-repeated tale of heartache, there was a loss of control in the final ten minutes, a familiar closing chapter.

He accepted Mr. Toti's oft-repeated tale of developing a life vest after he acquired a boat at 16 and his mother would not let him use it because he could not swim, but called it irrelevant.

Behind all this abuse lurks the oft-repeated tale of Charlie Parker, who, it is said, practised like a demon after Count Basie's drummer Jo Jones threw a cymbal at him for failing to keep time.

An oft-repeated tale has Mr Grimond being asked to give the name of his nearest rail station on a parliamentary expenses form, and writing "Bergen, Norway".

And lurid, oft-repeated tales of a drunken Lennon's being evicted from the Troubadour, a nightclub in Los Angeles, seemed to support that image.

He actually wrote the book on magic mushrooms (or at least the first one based on more than layers of unconfirmed, questionable, and oft-repeated tales).

That's the oft-repeated story — and it's wrong.

The story of Jobs visiting Xerox's Palo Alto research center in 1979 and realizing that the company was, as he put it, "sitting on a gold mine," is an oft-repeated foundational tale, partly because he appropriated some of Xerox's ideas.

Salty, off-the-cuff comments, made in the context of one of his oft-repeated stock tales (many of them involving dinners), are part and parcel of this mayor's socializing style.

In Ambrose's oft-repeated telling of the tale, Eisenhower contacted him after reading his biography of Henry Wager Halleck, Abraham Lincoln's chief of staff.