Sentence examples of "cuento" in Spanish with translation "story"

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Paul anoche estaba leyendo un cuento. Paul was reading a short story last night.
Ella no pudo comprender el cuento entero. She could not understand the whole story.
Los personajes principales de este cuento son dos. There are two main characters in this story.
Este cuento vale la pena leerse de nuevo. This story is worth reading again.
Ella les leyó un divertido cuento a los niños. She read an amusing story to the children.
Para hacer el cuento corto, él se casó con su primer amor. To make a long story short, he married his first love.
El Fantasma de Cock Lane es un cuento de fantasmas inglés del siglo 18. The Ghost of Cock Lane is an English ghost story from the 18th century.
El cuento habla de la aparición de un ahogado en las orillas cerca de un pequeño pueblo de mar en el Caribe. The story tells of the ghost of someone who drowned on the banks near a small town on the Caribbean sea.
¡No me cuentes cuentos chinos! Don't tell me fairy stories!
¡No me vengas con cuentos! Don't tell me fairy stories!
¡No me vengas con cuentos chinos! Don't tell me fairy stories!
Es un autor famoso por sus novelas y cuentos. He is an author famous for his novels and stories.
De niño yo era adicto a la lectura de cuentos policiales. When I was a boy, I was addicted to reading detective stories.
Nadie creyó a Kevin porque todo lo que alguna vez dijo acabaron siendo cuentos chinos. Nobody believed Kevin because all he ever told were tall stories.
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