tell Examples

[tɛl]

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Examples of tell in a Sentence

Examples of tell
1. He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
2. After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned.
3. I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.
4. If you don't tell me why you did it, I'll air all your dirty laundry to your boss.
5. 1605, But for all this thou shalt have as many dolours for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year. — William Shakespeare, King Lear II.ii
6. I'll tell you, but keep it on the down low.
7. Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale. ‎
Examples of told
1. Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. (Bible, Acts 9:6)
2. They were nonjudgmental first-person stories, including the notorious narcocorrido “Pacas de a Kilo,” (“One-Kilo Packets”) told from the point of view of a proud marijuana grower.
3. He asked what I was talking to Sam about. I told him it was none of his business.
4. After the accuser proved unable to identify her assailants during two photo lineups, Nifong told the police to give her a third chance, showing her pictures only of the 46 white lacrosse players without any pictures of “fillers,” or nonsuspects.
5. 1998. They asked him if he was a pachuco. He said all the pachucos he knew of lived in El Paso. He told em he didn’t know any Mexican pachucos. — Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
6. And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean.
7. He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch.
8. by degrees my little pickle (who, as I told you at the beginning of the story, was the most troublesome child I ever came across) turned into a very well-behaved young gentleman.
Examples of tells
1. As ominous thwacking sounds are heard — she asks some dancers to demonstrate a few moves — Ms. Streb tells of the time she set herself on fire, semiaccidentally.
2. Mr. Kaminsky tells precisely the same story — except with Mr. Beekman as the late arriver.
3. The government tells us we can protect against a chemical attack by duct taping the windows.
4. Applied to birding, the gis approach involves a deemphasis of separate field marks in favor of the gestalt, the essence that tells us a dog is a dog [ … ]
Examples of telling
1. "Ay, billy, that is a yanker !" said Tam aside : " When ane is gaun to tell a lie, there's naething like telling a plumper at aince, and being done wi't
2. After having shown us three hours of instructional and safety videos, the inspector was simply beating a dead horse by telling us to buckle up as we got into the van.
3. Please stop telling me how smart I am - you'll give me a big head!
4. When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.
5. Her mother laid it on thick, telling her to call home more often.
6. I'm telling you, if you sign that paper, you're playing with fire.
7. She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along.
8. They are identical twins, and if they dress the same, everybody has trouble telling them apart.
9. Don't listen to him, he's telling tales.