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
• His friends never realized the deception, enthralled by his ability to weave a tall tale.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 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
• Meanwhile, Kaavia is watching her device, mostly oblivious to her mother's tall tale.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 21 Jan. 2022
• The Fancy’s tall tale claimed the crew needed permission to take on provisions before going straight.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• For most people, though, finding a 2-foot-long amphibian in the eastern United States might sound like a tall tale.
  — Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• If the assertion was made by a non-tech person, or a tech person who wasn’t associated with a primary tech firm, the odds are that the tale would have been classified as a tall tale.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
• Amy Schumer tells a mother of a tall tale in the trailer for the Netflix comedy feature Kinda Pregnant.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
• 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
• These quick editing methods create an eerie atmosphere and paint this story as more of a believable rogue foreign policy operation than a farfetched tall tale.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The fraud artist will spin a tall tale of how these investments are extremely secret, regularly used by the super-rich, and the fraud artist has somehow been able to make connections with the bankers who can provide these instruments.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• What was supposed to be a private outlet, lasting only a few days while his wife and son were visiting family in Vancouver, became a six-week affair, complete with a tall tale about breaking his arm.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• While broadly based in reality, the entire movie is a put-on, a wackazoid tall tale, a comedy that uses the breakfast wars as the jumping-off point for a high-camp exercise in nostalgic lunacy.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 May 2024
• 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
• The band split with its big-name label, and Forrest and drummer Anthony Johnson approached Hazel with a tall tale about a major label that would pay big for the original lineup to get back together.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2025
• 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
• Speaking to The Guardian, Cave responded to a reader’s question about a 2022 tall tale from Cave which recounts the pair apparently meeting based on their similar names.
  — Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 9 May 2025
• Philip Bunting’s new picture book uses this tall tale as a starting point for a funny and sweet story about a misunderstood dropbear and a little bird who’s determined to discover if the rumors about Dropbear’s terrifying behavior are true.
  — Caroline Carlson september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025