How To Use Tell on In A Sentence
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Years ago, they'd tell on you if you did something wrong — crimes were solvable.
Times, Sunday Times
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These may all be included in the journey of your life but they tell only a part of the story.
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To put it another way, we may need to tell one another and ourselves major whoppers, and not just little white lies, to replenish our interest in life.
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She "hem" - ed and "ha" - ed for awhile, and her simpering ways were just beginning to tell on my nerves, when she suddenly started talking very fast.
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
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It is not unreasonable to expect that gentlemen who enjoy that sort of recreation, upon hearing that a London call girl was writing a kiss-and-tell online diary, would race to the nearest computer and check it wasn't them being mentioned.
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She does tell one good joke though:'How many performance artists does it take to change a light bulb?
Times, Sunday Times
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These snakes are roughly cylindrical, and if their small forked tongues didn't flick in and out, it would be hard to tell one end from the other.
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While Vandy measured him, Doriel began to tell one of the more tame war stories, but Malindila and Vandy both shook their heads.
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I mentioned in Chapter 2 that ‘narrative display texts’, a class which includes both literary narratives and stories people tell one another, circulate because their stories are tellable, ‘worth it’.
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He can't tell one wine from another, so don't give him any of the expensive stuff.
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All they need to do is tell one guy on the radio he has a problem with his brakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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And I can't tell one bit of difference between codfish and plaice.
Hiccup
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I follow moments, and to me, as a sportswriter, that is what has become the essence of sports: those stories that you're pretty lucky and pretty fortunate to get to tell on a regular basis.
Gelf Magazine
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Strain began to tell on his health.
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The air is warm, slightly sweaty, as the compromise between being well dressed and being comfortable starts to tell on those waiting for tables to clear inside.
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Pretty hard to tell one from another wrapped in butcher paper.
Huntin' Does
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Tell one birder about an owl in a tree and within a few hours, you can expect to find that tree ringed by a throng of twitchers deploying expensive optics.
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Pressure can tell on the players and, when we made that dreadful mistake for their first goal, the pressure was almighty.
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They have a great physical presence and they made that tell on this occasion.
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It's an interesting fact that there are literally umpty-twelve kajillion articles in magazines like Hopeless Alcoholic, Failed Poet, and Parental Disappointment Monthly that tell one how to deal with the life of rejection and despair that comes with trying to break into one's chosen field as a writer.
Red Room: Gail Simone: Survival Tips for the Newbie Writer
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The two sisters are so similar that it's almost impossible to tell one from the other.
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The two sisters are so similar that it's almost impossible to tell one from the other.
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She does tell one good joke though:'How many performance artists does it take to change a light bulb?
Times, Sunday Times
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There are lots of ways to lie, and the most effective way is to tell only a part of the truth. lionheart
Obama: Health-care reform will not increase deficit
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A succession of late nights had begun to tell on him and his work was suffering.
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The two girls are so alike that strangers find it difficult to tell one from the other.
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Had to tell one or two porkies here to avoid being mis-categorised in this nonsensical quiz from a born again Christian, UKIP-er, chessman and lifelong Sheffield Resident Jonathan with an eh?'
Archive 2007-01-07
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He always said that he wouldn't tell on me but he always ended up ratting.
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The strain was beginning to tell on the rescue team.
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But Pew Hispanic Center Senior Demographer Jeffrey Passel argues those numbers tell only part of the story.
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Promise not to tell on me!
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What drives me up the wall is when the uncouth classes begin their fighting and screeching and petty arguments, or when snide little tattletales run up to me to tell on people.
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Botanical names for plants are often tongue-twisters, but they are handy things to get a grip on because they can tell one a lot about a plant, without even seeing it.
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He can't tell one wine from another, so don't give him any of the expensive stuff.
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‘There are many cases where students have been told they'll be kicked out if they don't tell on their friends,’ says Manfred.
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Like journalists, politicians selectively quote the facts, they only tell one side of the story, and they give unbalanced and biased opinions.
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All they need to do is tell one guy on the radio he has a problem with his brakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The strain was beginning to tell on the rescue team.
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The strain is beginning to tell on her.
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Financial difficulties tell only part of the story of the retrenchment of the Guggenheim empire.
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She does tell one good joke though:'How many performance artists does it take to change a light bulb?
Times, Sunday Times
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Luckily for both of us, Tanya was not in the room at the time so she would never know about any of what happened because I knew that none of my friends were going to tell on me.
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Gone are the days when the neighborhood was a mixture of different facades and you could tell one friend's house from another.
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Confinement and want of fresh air was beginning to tell on her health and spirits.
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It went on for a while and I didn't tell on him, but I pressured him to tell Mum and Dad himself, which he did.
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She does tell one good joke though:'How many performance artists does it take to change a light bulb?
Times, Sunday Times
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So far the fundraising is apparently going very well, and Dr. Isis says If you keep visiting the way you are now (or maybe one extra click more a day to help a sister out? or maybe you would tell one friend about the blog?) we're going to be able to do something much bigger than I initially anticipated we would.
Visit Dr. Isis to Help a Young Woman Scientist
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The strain was beginning to tell on the rescue team.
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American culture (if you want to call it that) is becoming homogenized to the point where it's getting hard to tell one place from another.
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We suspect septicemia because of the maggot bites and the conditions in which he was found but we can only tell once the post-mortem results are in.
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I can't tell one twin from the other.
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We don't even have to tell one or more of the girls we're pashing.
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We suspect septicemia because of the maggot bites and the conditions in which he was found but we can only tell once the post-mortem results are in.
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I thought only igno-ramous Westerners say they can't tell one from the other.
The Miko
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And if he went and was pandied all the same all the fellows would make fun and talk about young Dedalus going up to the rector to tell on the prefect of studies.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man