tales
Example Sentences
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In honor of Slate’s 30th anniversary, Luke waded into the comments section and discovered tales of love, loss, and a vanishing form of online community.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
In Britain, that generation was raised on heroic tales of empire-building, in which war was one glorious cavalry charge, leading to swift victory and everyone home by Christmas.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Icelandic sagas are tales of Viking Age families interacting with a wider world, written down several centuries later in the Middle Ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“There aren’t a lot of tales to tell about Byron Sher,” said Bill Lockyer, who was Senate leader when Sher won a state seat in 1996.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
They’d never seen a human up close, though they’d heard tales of them.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
