It might begin "Did you hear ...?"

Usage examples of rumor.

The rumors of this that reached Adams at Quincy would be confirmed before the year was out by his old friend Elbridge Gerry, who was a presidential elector for Massachusetts and, like Adams, an ardent antiparty man.

Timothy Pickering spread the rumor that to secure his reelection Adams had struck a corrupt bargain with the Republicans.

The pair of them ran the networks of eyes-and-ears for the Aes Sedai here in Salidar, the agents who sent in reports and rumors of what was going on in the world.

The appointment has largely been greeted with enthusiasm by the Wizarding community, though rumors of a rift between the new Minister and Albus Dumbledore, newly reinstated Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, surfaced within hours of Scrimgeour taking office.

No rumor was too extreme to find its way into the fanciful legends that foreign travelers heard repeated with awe in Amman, the desert capital of Jordan.

How would you feel if the Christian right held a press conference, putting out rumors to promote its antigay agenda?

The antinuclear protests in Asia during the past decades had been heavily funded by Japan, and had succeeded in spite of rumors in the Western press that Japan itself was working on a new type of nuclear weapon.

His archenemy had learned of Sera, undoubtedly from the rumors flitting about East Chatham.

But those who give credence to this rumor point out that it is most peculiar that the duke of Atholl permits his second-eldest daughter to wait six years to marry.

There are wild rumors that the Yankees are bombing Bangkok, that their Marines are landing in the city, but nothing confirmed.

The triple-damned Moorish bastards have never needed much excuse to sail out and prey on honest shipping, and the mere unsupported rumor, without a single grain of truth to it, that old Abdul might have been poisoned has got them allfrom Sidi Barani to Beni Safarmed and at sea after gold and slaves and anything else they can lay hands on.

Rumors were rife among the men that some secret political deal was being made with the federals by Governor Barnett, a deal that involved guns being pointed at them, Rumors that were not far from the truth.

At night, Bob and I followed CJ around the pool tables, bars, and beer joints of Gatlin and Travis counties, picking up bits and pieces of information, tracking tidbits of gossip, following the rills of rumors.

This verified the rumors Bob and I had picked up in the bars from people who had once worked for the Lomaxes.

We therefore cruised along the Bornean coast making inquiries of the natives until at last we found one who had heard a rumor of a party of whites being far in the interior searching for a white girl who had been stolen from them by pirates.