Or maybe she's found out that someone saw her, so she's been forced to spin a plausible tale.

No, Herr Custer, you will have to concoct a more plausible tale.

This historical novel tells a historically plausible tale regarding her marriage to Sir Richard Woodville.

He composed a plausible tale on his way to the phone.

One can only hope that on his next outing he applies those gifts to the telling of a more plausible tale.

He phoned me and, when we arrived, told an elaborate but plausible tale of having been assaulted by an inconnu.

That was a plausible tale told me by Michael.

Bit by bit they had been won over by Trinket's plausible tales, and with this final prospect, they needed no further convincing.

It used to be you could ring them right up, tell a plausible tale, and get the infor-mation you wanted within a minute or two.

Tolskegg, if he were still alive then, could tell a plausible tale.