8 sentences with 'rumours'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rumours and other words derived from it.
• « Even as members of the Third Estate drew up their lists of grievances, rumours spread that nobles and wealthy merchants were hoarding grain to drive up prices. »
• « In Paris, some twenty miles away, rumours spread that the king was going to crush the new National Assembly by force. As a result, crowds took to the streets on 12 July. »
• « While the torture campaign was kept out of the press, rumours of its prevalence soon spread to mainland France, inspiring a huge debate about the necessity and value of holding on to Algeria. »
• « Excited to the marrow of their bones and imbued with purpose, they were ready to take on the opposing team, whose members, according to persistent rumours, wore razor blades in their knee pads. »
• « He took part in successful expeditions in Panama before following rumours of Inca wealth to the south. »
• « He presided as governor of the province of Nueva Galicia, where he heard rumours of wealth to the north: a city of gold called Quivira. »
• « Ever fearful of an uprising among New York's slaves, the city's whites spread rumours that the fires were part of a massive slave revolt in which slaves murdered whites, burned the city and took over the colony. »
• « She married John Timberlake, a naval officer, and they had three children. However, rumours abounded about her relationship with John Eaton, a US senator from Tennessee who had come to Washington in 1818. »