Sentence examples for tale explains from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, an etiologic tale explains the origin of a custom, state of affairs, or natural feature in the human or divine world.

One sad tale explains: "In church they made me think the important thing was to get married and have children, then Christ would come," said one escapee.

This apocryphal tale explains that the reason Judas used a kiss, specifically, is because Jesus had the ability to change shape".

Does this illustrative tale explain last week's IPO flop?

It can be as thick as porridge, or as thin as soup; caramel coloured or dark mahogany; bursting with seafood or chock-a-block with squirrel: as Sara Roahen, adopted daughter of New Orleans, and author of the vastly entertaining Gumbo Tales, explains, "It's an intensely esoteric topic... whatever style a person grows up eating tends to remain her ideal for eternity.

Their folk tales explain how this state of affairs came about.

Many tales explain the origin of a particular rock or mountain.

Far from discouraging that tourism-friendly if somewhat unscholarly notion, the municipal government of Chengdu commissioned science fiction writers in 2011 to conjure tales explaining the phenomenon, according to a report by China's Xinhua news agency.

Professor Pieixoto has just presented a paper, titled "Problems of Authentication in Reference to the Handmaid's Tale," which explains the provenance of the Handmaid's story: it's a transcript of recordings made on a series of cassette tapes, found in a taped-up footlocker unearthed in what was once Bangor, Maine.

Joanna Troughton's The Tiger Child is a version of a folk tale which explains why tigers eat their food uncooked.

He searches for the origins of the domestic apple in Kazakhstan to tell an evolutionary tale which explains how every eating apple in the world is a direct descendent of apples in the Tien Shan forest (the bitter taste of apple pips is cyanide, their shape adapted to slip through the guts of a marauding bear unharmed).