Sample Sentences forapocryphal (auto-selected)
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I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out of it with another man's cheque for close upon a hundred pounds. (source)apocryphal = of questionable authenticity
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Though this story was a favorite of the Grand Duke's and often retold to the young Count as an example of courageous perseverance in the face of impossible odds, the Count had always suspected it was a little apocryphal.† (source)
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I hear you worked your way through medical school at a truck stop, or some such apocryphal nonsense.† (source)
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But then you felt everything Hoagland said was apocryphal, always questionable.† (source)
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During the last year the old man had taken to studying the Apocryphal Gospels, and constantly talked over his impressions with his young friend.† (source)
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The marriage was to make no change in their place of residence; they had been able to extend it, by taking to themselves the upper rooms formerly belonging to the apocryphal invisible lodger, and they desired nothing more.† (source)
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[44] [44] At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, tutu, pointed hat† (source)
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But he wasn't called anything because this is an apocryphal story, which means that it is a lie, too.† (source)
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According to one possibly apocryphal account, Washington and the others had left their horses and were proceeding on foot when suddenly two mounted British officers coming at a gallop sent them "running and scampering for life."† (source)
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In one possibly apocryphal story, doctors once trained a homeless man to do routine lab tests because there was no one else available.† (source)
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Actually, I think I prefer that it be apocryphal, since made-up anecdotes have their own kind of truth.† (source)
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A comparable vision is described in the apocryphal Gospel of Eve.† (source)
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Sam, I think this rather apocryphal,—this miracle.† (source)
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Fifty times had the mention of Barney Cahoon, the town drayman, like a nickel in a slot produced from Kennicott the apocryphal story of Barney's directing a minister, "Come down to the depot and get your case of religious books—they're leaking!"† (source)
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Cowper's Apocryphal Gospels.† (source)
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Such and so licentious were the times, as announced by the public declaration of the assembled clergy, recorded by Eadmer; and we need add nothing more to vindicate the probability of the scenes which we have detailed, and are about to detail, upon the more apocryphal authority of the Wardour MS. CHAPTER XXIV† (source)
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