RUMOUR in a Sentence
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72 example sentences for RUMOUR, such as:
1. You shouldn't listen to the rumour.
2. And sure enough, the rumour was true.
3. The rumour is without foundation in fact.
4. The rumours of an attack were later confirmed.
5. The rumour was fabricated by the enemy radio station.
2. And sure enough, the rumour was true.
3. The rumour is without foundation in fact.
4. The rumours of an attack were later confirmed.
5. The rumour was fabricated by the enemy radio station.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of RUMOUR
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rumour
v. tell or spread rumors
n. gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to introduce poison into Napoleon's food.
2 Late one evening in the summer, a sudden rumour ran round the farm that something had happened to Boxer.
3 And sure enough, the rumour was true.
4 It had come to his knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of Boxer's removal.
5 Small sounds carried far; domestic sounds out of the houses were clearly audible on either side of the roadway; and the rumour of the approach of any passenger preceded him by a long time.
6 Well, my dear boy, Marshall from Fillingwood asked me, that's all I can say about a rumour.
7 A most scandalous, ill-natured rumour has just reached me, and I write, dear Fanny, to warn you against giving the least credit to it, should it spread into the country.
8 As no scandalous, ill-natured rumour had reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter.
9 With the next morning, there came a rumour, that two men and a boy were in the cage at Kingston, who had been apprehended over night under suspicious circumstances; and to Kingston Messrs.
10 She longed to see the Crofts; but when the meeting took place, it was evident that no rumour of the news had yet reached them.
11 The reddleman's hint that rumour might show her to disadvantage had no permanent terror for Eustacia.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
12 In the evening her grandfather came indoors with a rumour that Yeobright had removed that day from Alderworth to the old house at Blooms-End.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
13 He loved to lie in the very centre of five millions of people, with his filaments stretching out and running through them, responsive to every little rumour or suspicion of unsolved crime.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
14 My father is dead and gone," answered Telemachus, "and even if some rumour reaches me I put no more faith in it now.
15 I began to cherish hopes I had no right to conceive: that the match was broken off; that rumour had been mistaken; that one or both parties had changed their minds.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 The rumour is that there is a sequel to the movie in the works, although this has not been confirmed.
2 There's a rumour floating around of a new job in the unit.
3 Each new rumour added fresh impetus to the smear campaign.
4 His name has come up in the rumour mill as a possible director for the project.
5 To start a rumour for me might not hurl away on my election.
6 The rumour is without foundation in fact.
7 It was the kind of rumour that it is impossible to refute.
8 You shouldn't listen to the rumour.
9 The Washington rumour mill suggests that the president secured his narrow majority only by promising all sorts of concessions.
10 The government issued an official denial of the rumour.
11 The rumour was fabricated by the enemy radio station.
12 She was able to shoot the rumour down in flames with ample documentary evidence.
13 No one has yet been able to trace the source of the rumour.
14 If the rumour is true, there is no reason to believe that Skype will be free this month.
15 The rumours of an attack were later confirmed.