How to Use tall tale/story in a Sentence

tall tale/story

noun

• Plus, the tall tale of a four-footed police chase in Missouri.
  — CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• Though in this case, the fact in question may be more of a tall tale—but an amusing one, nonetheless.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• This isn’t some old-timer’s tall tale: Lori Ford has been walking two miles down a dirt road, with snow past her knees, just to get to work this month.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Also, Stan's tall tale gives Linklater the barest minimum of a clothesline on which to hang his vignettes.
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2022
• Whether looking for an encounter to run tonight or a tavern to spin a tall tale, these boxes from Steamforged Games are handy for any Dungeon Master.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 1 July 2022
• There’s an overt element of exaggeration that bends the story into the substance and the tone of legend—the effect is of an onscreen tall tale.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 June 2022
• The monochrome cinematography has a spooky feel to it that holds attention — apt for a film that plays like an enchanting tall tale seeped in ancient lore.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• His friends never realized the deception, enthralled by his ability to weave a tall tale.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• According to this tall tale, Congress would then certify these fake electoral votes, and Donald Trump would be re-elected.
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 21 June 2022
• As per usual, Biden made it all about himself and yet another tall tale about his own personal connection to that bridge which didn't exist.
  — Fox News, 27 Mar. 2024
• When a big-time Hollywood producer steals his class paper and turns it into a hit movie, no one believes Jason's latest tall tale.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 13 Sep. 2022
• It’s often labeled a tall tale given Ventoux’s 6,273-foot summit, but is still an inspiring story about the risks and rewards of challenging your body in the great outdoors.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
• Meanwhile, Kaavia is watching her device, mostly oblivious to her mother's tall tale.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 21 Jan. 2022
• And unlike Daisuke Matsuzaka’s gyroball, which proved to be a tall tale, or perhaps just a slider, Senga’s forkball, according to some of the people who have seen it, is a devastating weapon that delivers on the hype.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• For many American viewers, their story will come across as an exuberant anti-colonialist tall tale.
  — Simon Abrams, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
• In the tall tale the authors tell, Palestinians make little more than cameo appearances, bearing responsibility for neither their decisions nor their fates.
  — Michael Oren, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2023
• Others, like rumors of him stabbing an audience member for taking his photograph, were never verified beyond their tall tale status, but those stories played a role in dramatizing G.I.S.M.’s mystique abroad.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 2 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024