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Sentence Examples After reassuring him that all was well, I discovered he had heard the rumor from his account executive, with whom he had a close relationship. We can watch it bubble up from blogs and activist sites and spread like a playground rumor. Alex told me that Regina tried to crash the party and there was a rumor that she brandished a gun. We know how tempting it can be to indulge in listening to or passing along a juicy rumor. The intervening time has seen a remarkable amount of rumormongering, jingoism, blind adherence to rumor, and armchair patriotism. The crowd began to thin out so early it looked as if someone had spread a rumor that the police were going to raid the place. Editors, meanwhile, began routinely winking at copy containing unfounded speculation, rumor, and unchecked facts. I heard a rumor, freshman year, that he once tried to seduce every single female teacher in the school. In the meantime, Chu's whereabouts remain unknown although rumor have it that he could be in China. After a two-year hiatus, rumor has it that Rodman is serious about making a comeback. When rumor has it a big time Hollywood producer is going to attend the show, Ralph is convinced he is Tinseltown bound. Soon after the cars were loaded, a rumor started to spread that made Ava's hair stand on end. They, at the advice of the old man, went north-west, toward larger cities and a greater chance of finding rumor of their enemy. Facts were fabricated from whole cloth by wild rumor and fueled by crowd hysteria, fear, desperation and downright anger. So there was a rumor of these large metal tubes lying in a construction site somewhere in the Bay Area. If I'm gonna get mad and be bitter about hearing my name in a trade rumor, then I gotta be crazy and out of my mind. The rumor mill had kicked into high gear until Calvin had broken down and spilled the news. The rumor of the weekend, of course, was that the company was hanging out in Finland kicking the tires on a huge potential merger. There was a rumor that the first trailer for the film would be shown, but no such luck. That's because once the balls stop bouncing, the mouths start blabbering, providing precious grist for the league's rumor mill. Show More Sentences Lanser Hall was one of the oldest dorms and laboratories on campus and hadn't been used due to the rumor of a phantom that haunted them. I've heard a rumor that at some point a blimp was made for this camera, but I've had no luck finding one. Contrary to the popular rumor that Generations X and Y are mostly slackers, these young people take action. More rumor on the dusty street pointed to a new integrated disc brake mount. First came a rumor about Kerry, then a small-time blogger wrote about it, and his posting was read by journalists. The rumor mill is going at top speed as the March 11 trading deadline nears. The tailor who lived in the cellar below his shop had told Rafe of a rumor that riots had broken out on the agricultural collectives. Also, being a doubting Thomas, I wanted to verify those tall tales of the Alaskan winter and to disprove the rumor of the Alaskan qualification. Most interesting of all, the super-exclusive card came into being as a result of the persistent rumor that it existed. There was a rumor going around at the meet 'n' greet and then among people going in to the concert that you were there. The simple fact is that even the rumor or thought of an area affected deters people from using the land. White House spokesman Scott McClellan dismissed the speculation as simply a part of what he called the beltway rumor mill. During times of business uncertainty, the rumor mill turns faster than ever, often resulting in lower employee productivity. I know this sounds pretty strange, but the rumor is out there and would be pretty gnarly if so. The only reason he turned her down is because this rumor got started that Christy was the most promiscuous girl at our school. I am always ready to believe the worst when warranted, but this has all the earmarks of a wild rumor. It often seems that my employees get information through the rumor mill before I am ready for disclosure. And after her highly publicized breakup, the rumor mill began to portray her as a Hollywood party girl. The decibel level inside the Post newsroom gave the rumor credence far beyond idle chatter. But that hasn't dissuaded a loose-knit coterie of online conspiracists, antiwar activists and Democratic Party operatives from keeping the draft rumor alive. Show More Sentences If your skin was darker than a brown paper bag, went the rumor, you could not get in. I heard a rumor that you and Channing Tatum were trying to make a film version of Guys and Dolls together. Deep sea animals will heave themselves up from the abyssal depths, even though it's fatal to them, if they hear a rumor that you will be passing overhead in a boat. All you've got for me is warmed-over rumor and Beltway gossip! There's plenty of room for the rumor mill to keep turning and every fashionable Washingtonian is in the mix right now asking what the first lady will wear. A rumor circulating on twitter that Mr Clifford's doctor is named Dr Cockson has yet to be verified by teh Royalist. After all, the innermost sexual longings of presidents, both living and dead, have long been the stuff of rumor and conjecture. That night we heard rumor of a kegger in a nearby small town. More recently, Deadspin reported another rumor about Derek Jeter asking for the same sexual favor, while positioned on all fours. He does, however, attempt to dispel some of the myths that have emerged from hearsay and rumor over the last century. Another rumor that has existed since before The empire Strikes Back was released. If you don't replace rumors with facts, the rumor mill takes over. This was the first great Hollywood scandal, and the rumor mill went wild. The likelihood of Imagine or DreamWorks taking over the film division seems to have diminished, but a bad run could start the rumor mill back up in an instant. Once Intel went public, the rumor mill didn't settle down one bit. Even for Daniel Radcliffe, the rumor mill has reached Elevatorgate-levels of hysteria. Hakeemullah squashed that rumor when his tape that announced the Times Square attack was released. The Blue Jasmine director also addresses the rumor Ronan Farrow is not his son, stoked by Farrow himself. To be sure, for all the rumor and threadbare analyses of plays, hard irrefutable proof of match fixing would be difficult to produce in any event. Thus the rumor as well as the reality of the threat is used for intimidation. Show More Sentences There's a rumor that there's been some kind of coup or civil war there. When I think over this rumor, I cannot adequately express the emotions which seize me. The news ricocheted around the world, as does just about any story, tidbit, whisper or rumor involving Angelina Jolie. Hollywood rumor says he has polished scripts, uncredited, for some movie blockbusters, and he's also busy with TV projects. There have long been rumors that Justice Kennedy can be persuaded by a soft personal touch, a rumor that murphy repeats. In fact, there's a rumor that the former president wanted to include his favorite sweet, a fresh, cream-filled cupcake, but the idea was nixed by Hillary. Joan knows about jokes because, rumor has it, she used to do comedy. By the 1940s, the box had disappeared from the show circuit entirely and was relegated to the rumor mill. There is some rumor of Federal supporters trying to block the rail lines into Manassas Junction and starving us out, but so far all it has been is rumor. But the rumor that House Republicans were cutting funding for Ebola had already taken off. If the rumor mill is right, then CBS has made a bold hire, handing a relative unknown one of late night's juiciest gigs. If the Internet rumor mill is right, the Facebook phone will launch on Thursday. The Washington rumor mill is now speculating that the former Nebraska Senator will not be nominated as Secretary of Defense. Will the rumor mill finally shut down even as he has publicly admitted how painful it is to be churned through it? Just last week, Oscar nominees Carey Mulligan and Natalie Portman resurfaced on the rumor mill as possible contenders. I thought that they did not take it as seriously as rumor said they did, or else that they would see the justice of our cause and come over to our side at once. There was, however, a rumor that later, when the alpha, beta, gamma theory went temporarily on the rocks, he seriously considered changing his name to Zacharias. I don't doubt that the Times reporters get up in the morning and, as I do, look to see whether a favorite rumor has made it into print or on the air. The rumor that coffee dehydrates people lacks scientific support. By the simple expedient of asking a public official about a rumor and recording the fact that he didn't comment, the AP and countless newspapers have propagated the report. Show More Sentences Tarre was referring both to the opposition's rumor campaign and to Chavez's statements. Before I got to South Africa, I even heard a rumor that whites were now becoming sangomas, traditional African healers. Unofficial results instead traveled through the rumor mill, passed along on mobile phones from one part of the country to another. It was the rumor of Alexander's death that triggered the assassination of Elagabalus and his mother. Oh, way to start a rumor, Hope. Angel glared the silent statement at her sister. On 10 April, a rumor emerged that Saddam Hussein and his top aides were in a mosque complex in the Al Az'Amiyah District of Baghdad. Hers is another name churning through the Middleton rumor mill. Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book. Unsquelched, a rampaging rumor can erode a product's sales, damage its market share, and even put workers out of their jobs. But until Samsung makes more officinal announcements and reveals the release date for the device, this can only be considered rumor. The rumor is this was purposefully done to lead up to a second book. That's especially true when the rumor is racing along on the heels of the Steens Mountain Running Camp. We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we? And rumor has it, somewhere in our large family, the tiebreaking vote for tonight's speaker was cast by a fourth cousin by the name of Chad. News travels house to house, until fact and rumor are indistinguishable. North Korea watchers smell another imaginative but uncorroborated rumor. According to another rumor, iodized salt could prevent harm from radiation, which caused panic buying a year ago following the leak at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. I had heard the rumor that fauvists were obsessed with wolves. Another concern expressed this week is a rumor that some Confederate soldiers are being forced to pay for the New Testaments and tracts provided by Baptist army colporters. He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true. Show More Sentences Gossip and rumor left no frailty undiscovered, no reputation unsmirched. Without being able to get verifiable evidence, every tell-all cyber blabber in the country began running with the rumor TimberBiel was a done deal. The rumor goes that Rochelle was so laviscious that even the brothel threw her out. Zeinval has been with her and agonizes over whether or not he should tell Shmerl. Examples from Classical Literature But in the mysterious way of rumor, the news spread to hearten the islanders. The rumor of the threatened attack on the spread was known to all the nine now. We know by rumor that there has been heavy fighting somewhere and somewhen. Terpsichore was out on the street when the rumor of the accident reached her. The rumor hereof was bruted throughout the Citie, and euery man resorted thither to see it. Might I be bold enough to ask from what quarter the rumor reached you, or with whom they mated me? The staring was not due to my unshaved face, but because there had been a rumor that Wedel and I had fallen at Kalisch. There had been a rumor of it in Nicaragua, but no one expected it on the ship. Was it not true that only the day before there had been a rumor that Bazaine was at Verdun? At Williamsburg, the rumor of his approach brought on a scene of consternation. That morning a rumor had reached the village of a famine in the island of Crete. They were built upon high cliffs and rumor had it that no enemy could take them. The favorite rumor was that the entire firm was a decoy to bewilder agents of foreign powers and pre-empt their espionage efforts. But surely that will prejudicially affect the rumor you were going to spread, sire? We had paused to recuperate our animals, and there was a rumor that we were to get new clothing. From man to man swept the awful rumor that at San Carlos, Rojas had not been found. I have just returned from a day in Epping Forest, whither I was drawn by a rumor of primeval beeches to be seen there. There was a readiness and suggestibility to respond to rumor or to the least excitant. The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution. A rumor of seals on the Arctic drift ice off shore had come in from the Spotted Horses. Show More Sentences Indeed there was rumor that white travelers had seen them north of Mexico. It was a combination, in these times of evil rumor, that boded no good. Bob did not know that rumor, too, was spreading in Brampton. The next day a rumor of the suicide was bruited through the clubs. His appearance but unhappily gave some corroboration to the rumor. The rumor of Elijah's defalcation had not disturbed Seymour seriously. This he did, stopping at the home of Mary Nestor, a pretty girl, who, rumor had it, was tacitly engaged to Tom. I remembered that, one evening, there was a rumor in the theater that the horse had disappeared and that it had been stolen by the Opera ghost. It is high time now to spread a rumor of my marriage with Mademoiselle Cormon. When I returned to my palace I found that the rumor already had reached Dejah Thoris, so I told her all that I had heard. At first I thought haught's informant was exaggerating a mere rumor. Moreover, he reckoned much on the interest of the Danglars to hush up the rumor of their own misadventures. The rumor that the ship was also carrying large quantities of breathalyzer kits remains unconfirmed. Still another rumor alleged Norton had been killed because the Vichy authorities had put a 200 piastre reward on the heads of all downed pilots. For the moment he poignantly regretted that rumor was not true, and that his eleven millions were not in reality thirty millions. There was rumor of vast caves that riddled the back country. Wesley Moyer's stallion, Tony Tip, was to race at the June meeting at Tiffin, Ohio, and there was a rumor that he would meet the stiffest competition of his career. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of rumor? Words that rhyme with rumor What is the past tense of rumor? What is the plural of rumor? What is the adverb for rumor? What is the adjective for rumor? What is the noun for rumor? Translations for rumor Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Rumney rummy rummer rummaging about rummaging rummages rumored rumor has it that rumor mill rumormongering rumormongers rumors 5-letter Words Starting With r ru rum rumo