Tale - definition, pronunciation, transcription

The movie is a stirring tale of courage.

We listened to his familiar tale of woe as he talked again about the failure of his marriage.

He told us thrilling tales about his adventures as a pilot in the war.

Are you telling tales again? Or is that the truth?

He was in the middle of telling me a long tale about how he once met the Redskins' manager.

The epic tale was written in verse.

But Vietnam is hard to sell as a tidy, cathartic morality tale of troubled times overcome.

...tells a cracking good tale of a search for a lost city...

...gather round me hearties, and I'll tell you a sea tale that'll shiver your timbers for sure...

...another moralizing tale filled with jejune platitudes...

...yet another tale of a power-mad dictator with a Machiavellian plan to take over the world...

...an ancient tale of a mage who made lush gardens grow in the desert...

...wrote a picturesque tale of their journey across the country...

... this movie isn't a soft-pedaled, poignant tale of addiction and recovery—it's just about the addiction.

...a ribald tale rife with double entendres and racy innuendo...