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Sentence Examples Artists appearing are still to be confirmed but, as ever, the rumour mill has already gone into overdrive. With that, the rumour mill started turning, with the suggestion that the channel was about to be relaunched under the ITV name. However, the most common rumour making the rounds was that big business interests wanted the land which the mall occupied. It might have been, so rumour had it, a film vehicle for those Latino leading ladies Madonna and Jennifer Lopez. The rumour then said that the failed registration was planned in order to make the leader look like a martyr and win the sympathy of the people. Apparently, word around the rumour mill was that he used to date a journalism major who wrote a weekly column for the Atheneum. Maybe that rumour could be added to the list of Viking myths and sagas that will feature next Friday in Bardic Adventurers! However, in response to the public outcry at the proposals, the council has now backtracked claiming talk of closure was a rumour. By the time I heard, the rumour had been the talk of the school for close to 20 minutes. He drove a Ferrari, he had long hair, and rumour had it he had even made it with a girl! For them increasing poverty and social scission seems at best a distant rumour. If you want more, rumour has it they're getting together for a special New Year's party. And to add to the bad times that Omar was going through a rumour had spread like wildfire that he was boycotting national team games. A rumour in Keighley that Siamese twins had been born to a couple has been confirmed. There is a scurrilous rumour that Charlie will welch on his bet by substituting miniatures for the 70 cl bottles he owes. You know, the air has been lambent with rumour for the best part of nearly a year now. The couple happily ushered me in, poured me an enormous whisky and denied every jot and tittle of the rumour. Call me a cynic, but I tittered when I heard a rumour that a high street bank considering sponsoring student comedy shows. These powers include the ability to convict suspects by innuendo, hearsay and rumour. You can't beat a flow of information to keep people informed and stifle rumour. Show More Sentences The vicious rumour persists to this day, even though the timeline of events completely negates this possibility. The internet rumour mill has been working overtime, a game of bluff and counter-bluff spreading like a computer virus. It is easy to see why rumour abounds about the levels of discontent simmering within the company. The irony has often been that charges were based on hearsay and rumour rather than on proper research and verification. It is no exaggeration to say the town was being torn apart by suspicion, rumour and accusation during my visit there in November. He says the Select Committee should be given hard evidence, not just rumour, and employers should either put up or shut up. The rumour mill can stop now, it's also been confirmed that Jen is in fact pregnant with whatshisface's child. This being a small town, the community is awash with rumour, secrets and hearsay, often tinged with a touch of mysticism. The rumour mill is going flat stick about him not lasting the distance this election. I once heard a rumour that you could go into a shop and buy a ready-to-wear suit. The latest rumour to reach Mr Kyaw's ears, however, was an encouraging one. It's no rumour that you can see the heads of the Philips screws used to bolt the dashboard together. Most damaging of all is the rumour that the phone call that reawakened Newcastle's interest in Woodgate came from within the Leeds camp. The swirl of rumour includes reports that hold the powerful and influential drug cartels responsible. He had picked up a rumour that someone had cracked it, and would spend all night chasing it up, unless he could find something more interesting. I now have to admit that I was wrong about this all being unfounded rumour. They kept an ear to the ground and followed up any and every rumour of a new find. Shortly after they opened the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, a rumour about its imminent collapse triggered a panicked stampede that killed 12 people. Ron said he decided to ring the Evening Press and place the advert before the rumour made it any further. However, a rumour went the rounds in November 1870 that he had recently married. Show More Sentences Although people have a right to know about info like this, the story is a rumour and hardly credible. He said there was no truth to the rumour that he had his vet administer a sedative to his horse before the race. All ages joined in on Saturday although rumour has it that some of the younger ones couldn't stand the pace. The rumour mill has gone into overdrive this summer, with much excitement and speculation over Arnold Schwarzenegger's next blockbuster project. Even self-obsessed pop stars didn't want the rumour mill to overshadow their music. The reader with an eye for colourful detail and elegant prose, not to mention for racy scandal and rumour, will no doubt forgive the book's shortcomings. Last time I blogged a rumour like this, it turned out to be true. In other worldly news, let me quash a nasty rumour right here and now. There was a rumour, a whisper, of a deeper malaise in the state. Although there are millions of pages of material on the web, it's an uncharted frontier of rumour, speculation, wild theories and baseless postulation. The only fall-out of this episode was that the management, also having got wind of the rumour, quickly embedded the canvas in an ugly plastic case. The wonky lights have been malfunctioning for so long, and so often, a rumour spread in the area that the equipment was, in fact, secondhand when it was installed. News of a rift between the friends is believed to be accurate, with the rumour leaking out at one point last month that the latter had left the company altogether. The Hollywood rumour mill has been active with stories of post-production strife, while accounts of the film's lame ending have surfaced on the Internet. However, since no one at Telewest was available for comment, the rumour mill will continue to work overtime until someone can be bothered to explain what happened. And rumour of the long-necked Lothario's prowess spread fast. We would like to crush any rumour right now that the only reason they are having a kid is so they can cheat at the parents' three-legged race at the school sports day. In the over-heated Westminster hot-house, rumour sprouts rumour in rapid motion, rather like those speeded-up films used in time-lapse photography. But with their meteoric rise to fame, we'd better get used to being this week's Williamsburg, despite the rumour that they've already moved to New York. The mere rumour of a landmine can render a community's fields unusable. Show More Sentences At a time the media should show responsibility in its reportage of a crisis, several foreign correspondents have been relying on hearsay and rumour. When the Beeshareens returned to Assouan he was not amongst them, and rumour says that he got as far as Marseilles, where he utterly vanished. Police divers report a rumour that the garden had been replaced at a depth beyond the lowest they were allowed to dive. Tacitus relates a rumour that 80,000 Britons fell for the loss of only 400 Romans. In the midst of the fighting a rumour went through the Umayyad army that Frankish scouts threatened the booty that they had taken from Bordeaux. According to rumour, exposing the Visigoths in battle was a convenient way of weakening the Gothic tribes. The latest rumour is that Ajay will be doing Priyadarshan's next film and that this would be the remake of the Hollywood film Speed. The Germans were known to be in Paris and advancing southwards, but information about German progress was inaccurate, mainly being rumour. A rumour started that the duke had been killed, which added to the confusion. The enemies of Offa and Charlemagne, described by Adrian as the source of the rumour, are not named. Adrian disclaims all belief in the rumour, but it is clear it had been a concern to him. The rumour is that the next area in the British Isles to be Muslimified will be Golders Green. Or the rumour that the chick playing noughts and crosses with the clown on the testcard grew up to be a stripper. Mario wasn't too chuffed with his branded mouse and mouse mat but rumour has it he loves this slot-racing kit. I've also heard a horrible rumour that hipster jeans are out and high waisters are in. There was a rumour that the rare wolfkin had been sighted in the botanical gardens in the west of the city. There was a vicious rumour that the final was rigged, as the defense seemed useless. Pitt's lack of interest in enlarging his social circle meant that it did not grow to encompass any women outside his own family, a fact that produced a good deal of rumour. At any rate, the uprising was strictly confined to Saturninus' province, and quickly detected once the rumour spread across the neighbouring provinces. This led to a political contest between the more moderate Girondists and the more radical Montagnards inside the Convention, with rumour used as a weapon by both sides. Show More Sentences To escape from growing debt and rumour, Byron pressed his determination to marry Annabella, who was said to be the likely heiress of a rich uncle. Swinton did so, knowing Churchill would remain a critic of the government, but believing that an informed critic was better than one relying on rumour and hearsay. But now there's a rumour about a new garden beyond the 50 m depth limit. In spite of this, the rumour persists that Churchill had ordered troops to attack, and his reputation in Wales and in Labour circles never recovered. Today the Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Paul Butler, reveals how he found fear and rumour on a recent fact-finding mission to the capital city Bujumbura. She had then heard a rumour that a mob from Oldham were planning to storm the track at Eccles to attack the Duke of Wellington, and decided to remain in the vicarage. Unless you are better genned up than Einstein was, the class will seeth with the rumour that you are not his equal, and you and your pions will be quickly discounted. This rumour, with an implied security threat, bears all the hallmarks of a so-called urban myth, having no apparent basis in fact, nor any evidence to support it. Pete Heslop, of the Albion pub in Llanrwst, said when a disgruntled customer could find no loo roll in the ladies' she started the rumour he'd banned it. Examples from Classical Literature A rumour was circulated that we should not be allowed to enter at all, the alar being a merchant-vessel. They were aided in this by a rumour that Felicien was to marry Claire de Voincourt. Meanwhile, to deal with the actual rumour, and its crystallization into history. Next is descried the bay of Tarentum, town, if rumour is true, of Hercules. A rumour spread over the whole island that, on the ninth of December, there would be a general massacre of the Englishry. The rumour of London fevers seems to have reached Barker, who kept an epidemiological record at Coleshill. I had heard a rumour that there was that especial failing, but I had hoped it wasn't true. The rumour spread that he had yielded to the entreaties of his wife eugenie. Mention is made of this foreign correspondent rumour only because it has been printed and reprinted. There was rumour of an honorary degree before I saw him in the flesh, at the high table of my college, a guest of the Provost. Some days passed and a rumour went about the town, in its origin as indiscoverable as the birthplace of the winds. There is a not unaccredited rumour that it was in wresting the revolver from a female hand that Gambetta got wounded. There was an unauthenticated rumour that he had been seen of late, lurking about Wanley. The folk were few about Mweru, but I heard a rumour of Mtakatifuni, much exaggerated, and set out to find it. As it was, they were insufficient to remove the odium with which rumour surrounded his name. But a rumour of the doings at Pilsen reached them on their journey, and suddenly stopped their further progress. And now there had come into Suffolk a rumour that Mr. primero was to have a peerage. The rumour of our journey had spread, but too late for the Press to get hold of the news. They were filled with people, for the rumour of that day's proceedings had made a great noise. These latter, the rumour had it, they sacrificed to some terrible god in an orgy which ended in the eating of their victims. Show More Sentences At this moment a rumour was heard at the extremity of the long hall. It welcomed us from the rumour of battle with a most salving peace. Ostrov took a most zealous share in disseminating the rumour. Any truth in the rumour the first begging letter was sent by an increasingly frustrated Ally McCoist? There was a strange rumour in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. It is quite clear that the Green Party is fanatically anti-science and will happily promote any rumour they believe will assist their cause. One could see a rumour begin and swell and change and increase. In the end the rumour drove them from givens, and in this manner. Marvels had happened in the temple of Hathor, that was the rumour. I have heard a rumour that busk is on our side in regard to species. When we reached the Mint we heard the rumour that Cawnpore had fallen. The rumour of his appearance is wrapped in the larger rumour of war. Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields. And then, from the Listening-in-Service, came the rumour of the strike. It was rumoured in Brotherton, and the rumour reached the deanery. Epanchin, long accustomed to her husband's infidelities, had heard of the pearls, and the rumour excited her liveliest curiosity and interest. Flailing around a paperhanger in a force ten gale, buying or selling on the strength of the latest market rumour, Chinese whispers or broker's note can lead only to insanity. Wherefore the remnant took measures till the rumour went abroad that young men who used the Tail Twisters as a crutch to the Staff Corps had many and varied trials to endure. What are my agony and indignation next day, when I hear a flying rumour that the Misses Nettingall have stood Miss Shepherd in the stocks for turning in her toes! I had no difficulty in deducing from your unreserved conversation, and the rumour openly going about among your admirers, the nature of your calling. Show More Sentences And we must needs say it seared Hester's bosom so deeply, that perhaps there was more truth in the rumour than our modern incredulity may be inclined to admit. The event of Tess Durbeyfield's return from the manor of her bogus kinsfolk was rumoured abroad, if rumour be not too large a word for a space of a square mile. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of rumour? Words that rhyme with rumour What is the past tense of rumour? What is the plural of rumour? What is the adverb for rumour? What is the adjective for rumour? What is the noun for rumour? Translations for rumour Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words rumors rumormongers rumormongering rumor mill rumor has it that rumored rumoured rumourmongers rumours rump Rump Rumpelstiltskin 6-letter Words Starting With r ru rum rumo rumou