Rumour

//ˈɹuːmə(ɹ)//

"Rumour" in a Sentence (17 examples)

When the accountant was arrested, rumour had it that it was for his creative bookkeeping.

The rumour has already spread.

That rumour is not true, is it?

Actually, it was just a rumour.

Actually, and I need to keep this quiet, but recently here there's a rumour that young women on this beach are having photos taken in secret of them.

Rumour has it that he's the richest dude in this town.

Every rumour contains a grain of truth.

The rumour spread through the town like wildfire.

Who did you hear that rumour from?

From whom did you hear that rumour?

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Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide

There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.

"Keep off Conductor Rails" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.

I myself gave support to the summoning of the Estates General ... as merely mistaken . Similarly it might be held that Paradise originated in a rumour invented in hell to make society the more interesting . ' ' We need a saviour .

Dame Rumour outstrides me yet again.

Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.

Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.

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