tell tales
Example Sentences
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So he decides to keep appearing in clubs to tell tales of his relationship woes, lacing the commentary with rueful remarks that are vaguely comic, though nothing he says is actually funny.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
Those who were in Sin City that week in December 2007 tell tales of thousands of British fight fans emptying the bars of alcohol.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025
At least the ones in “Misdemeanor Dream,” who tell tales in English and Native languages, but also via movement and dance, of the births of constellations, the celestial romance that begets all sentient life.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2022
My siblings and I tell tales of our mother that bring her into the present.
From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021
Matt Creighton’s grandfather had lived through the Revolution; Matt himself had survived the Mexican War; and Uncle Billy Jeffers, down the road, was still alive to tell tales of the War of 1812.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
