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Example sentences for "known story"

  • The well-known story of Clodius finding access to the house of Caesar, in female disguise, during the celebration of the mysteries of Bona Dea, gave occasion to this invective.

  • According to a well-known story, Edwy on the day of his coronation retired from the feast at which all the notabilities of the realm were present to enjoy the society of his bride.

  • The well-known story of his last moments is also very doubtful.

  • Of the same class is the Roman de l'Escouffle, where a hawk carries away the heroine's ring, as in a well-known story of the Arabian Nights.

  • There is a well-known story of a traveller who saw a procession of cats in a ruined abbey lowering a small coffin with a crown on it into a grave.

  • In the well-known story of "The Brahman Girl who marries a Tiger," the tiger assumes human shape and makes a beautiful girl fall in love with him.

  • One of the most charming descriptions of a Sea-maiden is found in Hans Andersen's well-known story of "The Little Mermaid.

  • There is a well-known story of Lord Melbourne's Ministry which illustrates this point.

  • The Rumanian story about the raven is more or less the well-known story of the raven in Noah's ark as told in the Bible.

  • This is the well-known story of King Log and King Stork.

  • This is in its essence the well-known story of the swan-maidens, but with a very marked difference.

  • It is not improbable that this curious struggle between Launcelot's conscience and the fiend might have been suggested by some well-known story in Shakspeare's time, grafted on the following Monkish fable.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "known story" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    easily removed; established fact; grown people; here because; into this; known also; known fact; known from; known lines; known only; known passage; known through; known under the name; known voice; known weight; known work; looking round; make things; marine products; name like; ordinary cases; said above; street cars; swamp dank and lone; these animals; well defined