How To Use apocryphal In A Sentence
- The story - probably apocryphal - is that William Webb Ellis at Rugby School in the nineteenth century picked up the ball during a soccer match and ran with it, inventing rugby.
- I have no idea whether or not the above story is true or apocryphal, but I'd like to believe it anyway.
- That's just one apocryphal Bergman factoid (Webster's dates "dramaturg" back to 1870) that theater producer Andrew Higgie has collected over the half dozen years it has taken him to get the filmmaker's "Through a Glass Darkly" screenplay up and running as a stage play at London's Variety.com
- The New Testament writers never quote from any of the apocryphal books.
- The apocryphal story of Columbus and the egg is very interesting.
- `I mean, I've heard a story, though I wasn't sure how apocryphal it was. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
- Wright was, in a sense, adding apocryphal books to his own hermetic scripture with each poem.
- There being little or no biblical evidence for any of these claims, the programme focused on apocryphal writings - including a Gospel of Mary Magdalene which turned up in 1945.
- Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia. ShoutWire.com
- The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
