How To Use Tell In A Sentence

Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
I badly wanted the job, but knew that my age would probably tell against me.
The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales

The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
A letter to his wife in 1847 tells of a visit to the Brights at Rochdale; how 'John and I discorded in our views not a little', and how 'I shook peaceable Brightdom as with Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
Though Jane tells herself stories, listens to stories told by others, and reads, she never writes anything other than a few letters-misaddressed and undelivered letters, at that.
Can you tell me what the major league record is for most consecutive batters retired by a pitcher and who holds it?
Ignorance of Sarah Palin offends anyone who is educated, it's an insult to the intellectual world, american intelligence. Palin plans 'aggressive' fundraising push
It's a bit like telling ghost stories.
The BBC never tires of telling us how passionately it seeks the interest and participation of the public in its political output, particularly the young.
The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories? CHAPTER I
Don't break in when he is telling the story.
No, Jack won't have nobody tell him what he can't ever be, even if he weren't born with a silver spoon in one end and an Harley Street hooter up the other. Jack Scallywag
I can, however tell you that AB is absolutely freaking awesome!! What I've been doing this morning...
At first, when their cops out there started telling me things, I didn't want to know. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
She tells me there are three deals on the table for the biopic movie of her life. Times, Sunday Times
This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint.
He also worked part-time at a satellite uplink station.
Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
And that is exactly why I say "intelligence" in the context of ID is a dormitive principle: Bunny and a Book
He is always telling the director how to run the business; that's like teaching one's grandmother how to suck eggs.
Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
A copyreader might not find it perfect, for the assault is allotted too much space and the pursuit too little, but it tells the story in its baldest aspect. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
All three leads are simply stellar in their roles and the interactions ring absolutely true.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is responsible for internal security, for counter-espionage, for counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.
History will tell whether those responsible will be held accountable for their crimes.
The law is there for you but for safety get expert advice before you tell him to leave. The Sun
It seems the interest in an intelligent house is rapidly growing.
That Constellation would not sign a power purchase agreement for its own reactor is a stunning admission that atomic energy cannot compete with natural gas or renewables. Harvey Wasserman: Nuke "Renaissance" Leaps off Calvert Cliffs
`All right, I'll tell you some of it, but first, let's get my things put away, before the high priestess comes looking for me. WEB OF DREAMS
The companion star would emit plenty of its own UV radiation, but this radiation would be blocked in the direction of Eta Carinae by the thick nebulosity of the giant star's surrounding gas, dust, and stellar wind.
I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed.
Cook the tagliatelle in boiling salted water until al dente.
It is easy to tell when a female is ready to mate.
The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
All this makes him an apposite starting point for those on the far right in search of intellectual sugarcoating.
When your mama a biach, you gonna be a bicah - when you grow up hearing men tell your mama "Bring me my blunts, BIACH!" you won't have a very high opinion of women, ergo, yourself. Undefined
This kind of discourse is at the opposite pole from storytelling as defined by Benjamin.
The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
Well, sir, I won't say anything about the hextry gas, though a poor widder and sevenpence hextry on the thousand, but I'm thinkin 'if you would give my Rosie a lesson once a week on that there pianner, it would be a kind of set-off, for you know, sir, the policeman tells me your winder is a landmark to' im on the foggiest nights. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
But when he returned to his room to give his other half the glad tidings, the housekeeper, who was listening to the story, interrupted to tell them that she knew of plenty of empty rooms.
To tell you the truth, your plan is very attractive, but it doesn't seem to be practicable.
If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia
Cereal song earth: Fictitious tellurion software, be together satellitic picture, map, encyclopedia and flight simulator conformity, decorate in an earth on three-dimensional model.
You cannot tell people to shrink or become less fit. Times, Sunday Times
The main thrust of my irritation comes from the fact that this was marketed in Previews as the issue that would tell us what Noh-Varr has been doing. Review: Dark Avengers Annual #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
This scandal is bound to tell against him in the coming presidential election.
He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
An orbiting satellite picked up a distress signal from the ship's emergency beacon, standard equipment on all modern boats.
She can tell you why the zebrafish's genome is particularly useful for determining how human bodies work at the primary level. Times, Sunday Times
Leo Nocentelli, co-founder of the Meters and New Orleans guitar legend, may not have turned Blues Alley into the steamiest place in Georgetown on Wednesday night when he re-ignited "Fire On The Bayou. In concert: The Meters Experience at Blues Alley
Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
Folk wisdom tells of the abundance that follows a freeze. Times, Sunday Times
I listen in to their conversations and store it all up to tell you later.
What could be more straightforward than telling a person he is suspected of a crime?
“For instance, you could tell it to record all episodes of a particular series, rather than your preprogramming it.” Friday Link Dump
Over the next few issues, we'll be working in partnership with adult literacy groups in different parts of the province to help them tell their own stories in their own ways.
Tell me, exactly what happens when the first C130 full of blokes cops a Manpad up it's jacksie and crash lands in flames? Army Rumour Service
The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
Rosie decides that a maternity fashion show highlighting her latest collection would be the perfect shower event because that is in no way a conflict of interest, and we soon learn the real motivation behind this choice -- a model casting montage in which LT wears a sequined capelet the color of Grimace from McDonaldland and tells the models to "serve and deliver. Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
Bradford: Then tell me if amino adenosine triacid ester is a genome. Adjusting Pre-configuration to Design Outcomes
For a long time I daren't tell him I knew, and when I did he went wild.
The committee is hoping to invite several people to give talks atthe launch and the usual story tellers will also be present.
I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
In fact, to tell the truth, it was my cribbing book, and I always kept it by me when I was writing at Athens, like a gradus, a _gradus ad Venetia
Then, I shall have news to tell, the _best of news_, I hope; and I won't need to keep anything back. The Golden Silence
On this special day that belongs to you,I'd like to tell you the happiness we share means more than I can show.With all my heart,I'm wishing the joy the whole year through.Happiness always!
8356A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. Quotations
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Rodney Dangerfield
Per hoc enim quod intelligimus vel gaudemus, ad aliquod obiectum aliqualiter nos habere oportet: amor vero aliquid alicui vult; hoc enim amare dicimur cui aliquod bonum volumus, secundum modum praedictum. Quitting Smoking
Do you think someone's behavior may be telling you about a menstrual disorder?
I'm very proud of him for how he's progressing, proud to tell people that he's my son.
Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
They tell me that his father was made what they call a baronet because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for. The Fixed Period
The plaque tells us the sculpture is ‘a symbol of universal human endeavour.’
I wrote it early in 1945 and it was published in Wireless World in October, just after the war had ended, and it laid down the principles which now determine the world's communication system, the idea that you'd have satellites poised at such a height above the earth that they remained stationery in the sky and so-called synchronous, or geostationary, orbit. Great voices of science fiction
Microsatellite markers are in lightface type.
Tell her you love her all over again, blah, blah, blah.
During seal pupping season, she has to tell tourists not to take selfies. Times, Sunday Times
Signum magnum apparuit in coelo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim. Archive 2008-08-01
Just getting anyone in the area to tell the platoon where the former mukhtar lived had taken three months of pleading, and after several false leads that day, the soldiers had found him. The Coming Normalcy?
Then, suddenly, the house turned itself into a Richard Curtis film - the one in which all those hard-hearted world leaders listen to a young wee Scots lassie who tells them that, yes, they can make poverty history, now!
a Djiboutian storyteller
A compelling storyteller with many voices lyric, operatic and diaristic, Ms. Snyder is often provocative; occasionally didactic or off-key. The Lady of the Wild Things
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
Swiss counter-intelligence was very effective, too, and 387 spies, mostly Swiss but including 100 Germans, were captured and brought to trial of whom 17 were executed.
A leading rocket scientist, Nair's contribution to the development of multistage satellite launch vehicles is immense.
Have a taste of the sauce and tell me if it needs salt.
[12] The original reference to experience from which the meaning of the term astronavigation should be derived is not essentially "space-travel," but forms of transoceanic navigation which take into account the effects specific to changes in specific astronomical experiences, from fixed to variable, which are relevant to transoceanic navigation within what had appeared, initially, as a permanently fixed set of changes within the ordering of the planets or specifically stellar phenomena. LaRouche's Latest
Don't tell me this is masquerading under the guise of some kind of tribute.
Tell the operator that Karl Lagerfeld thinks you're 'demode'. I want a t-shirt that says...
Despite what the antis would tell you, hunting is for people from all walks of life.
Occidentali Noruagiæ Insula, quæ Glacialis dicitur, magno circumfusa Oceano repentur, obsoletæ admodum habitationis tellus, A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
The tension has been telling on both sides as campaign strategists struggle to identify potential winning themes, not to mention winning voters, in their headlong sprint to the finish.
And some other statto is going to have to tell me when the last time we were top was. Arseblog
I would expect the government to fight a lawsuit trying to prevent something like this, just as I would expect a leg to bounce up when its patellar reflex is hit with a tendon hammer. Matt Kane: The Obama Administration's Desire to Keep Citizens in the Dark is Inexcusable
But his storytelling skills show up elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times
No days off and telling the world his players were hopeless after another hiding. The Sun
The monks of Vera Cruz can best tell thee where little 'thumbkin' is. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
When he first came into the job, he was viewed as cool, aloof and intelligent.
From what Meer does tell me, it behooves us to look to our own. A TIME OF WAR
One of my dazed wits tried to tell me the odds against this actually happening.
His current research is about the role of intelligence in multinational counterterrorism activities.
Trash and harrowingly low budgets are the point of a Versus movie, as the genre's pioneers well knew back when they were churning out Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein/The Invisible Man/The Mummy. Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name
And she would tell us wondrous stories of her youth, of the lands she had seen, and the darbar s of the olden days; of kings who were gods, and women whose friendship was victorious over every accident. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Tennyson
When a first-class work of literature is made into a movie, one always feels that some essential quality has been lost: an engagement with language, a reflectiveness, a guiding intelligence.
You tell us that you prize love, fidelity and commitment. Times, Sunday Times
Another dream tells of an encounter with a being who held four keys, and bore the wings of a kingfisher.
To say he had given up would be wrong, but intuition seemed to tell him who the winner would be. Times, Sunday Times
It is a matter of intellect, thought, indirect leadership, advice, and consensus-building.
At least Steven Pinker can tell us why we curse and why cursing is so goddamn hard to give up: All Be Galdangit
You could tell just by the way they acted; the kid had been fobbed off on them for a while.
After she'd gone he had drawn up a scorecard, ranging her qualities on one side - her intellectual gifts and vivid, racy conversation - and on the other all the vicious things she'd said.
As to the charge of ‘pseudo-intellectual revisionism’ I don't think this means much of anything beyond polysyllabic name-calling.
Lacy argued that he was misled by Stello when the arbiter pumped him out at second during an apparent steal attempt.
When she had said this she looked at Vinicius with astonishment and regret, for he had disaccustomed her to similar outbursts; and he set his teeth, so as not to tell her that he would have given command to beat such a brother with sticks, or would have sent him as a compeditus Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
I pause because telling the dream out loud has tripped the trigger.
With these prohibitions should be connected the somewhat unintelligible fact that the most pious Caliphs sat upon thrones (_mimbar_, "president's chair") of clay. Christianity and Islam
I said, " Oh, dear godmother, tell me, pray do tell me, did mama die on my birthday?
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Suddenly they upped and moved, telling neighbours that they were emigrating to the US.
Tell Transportation I want the largest vehicle they have with four-wheel drive, preferably a step-up maxi-van. CHAINS OF COMMAND
And yet, we have a whole bunch of people, serious, accomplished scientists, telling us that the seas will rise in some places while deserts will be created in others.
He's intelligent, witty, a loving husband, and an excellent cook into the bargain.
And one of the best ways of gathering criminal intelligence is forensics.
The Luxembourg-based satellite service is not bound by the same strict rules as the BBC.
He would tell me who I was, and his judgment was lacerating, merciless.
An album that finally demonstrates that ferocity and intelligence coexist beautifully.
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We can make plans for the next year, but who can tell what lies beyond that?
This is not a dishy, tell-all tale of wasted days and wasted nights.
He is indeed a leading intellectual. Times, Sunday Times
The result is a totally incoherent agglomeration of speech-forms -- a baragouin fantastic and unintelligible beyond the power of anyone to imagine who has not heard it .... Two Years in the French West Indies
It's telling the truth instead of political pabulum.
They also tell him that he can never leave, since that risks jeopardizing the setup for them all.
I can't believe that someone of his intelligence can read such trash!
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The satellite re-entered the atmosphere and burned up.
Speak to fitness and conditioning coaches and they will tell you how long layoffs cause weaknesses that heighten a susceptibility to minor injuries. Times, Sunday Times
PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Lou, a senior defense official tells CNN that that consideration of using helicopters to rescue Americans would happen only if the Americans could not move over land to the seaport, which is the preferred option to get all the Americans out of Lebanon. CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2006
Encourage the patient to relax the quadriceps and push the patella medially back into place.
Then I'll tell you: The moral of this story is to know what you fight for.
This tells us something interesting about the human concept of disgust. Times, Sunday Times
Viewed from Machu Picchu, the constellation we call the Southern Cross, which was also known and of some importance to the Inca, rises on east and sets on west of Salcantay, and at its highest point is directly above the mountain. Exploring the Inca Heartland: The Mountain Gods
Bands, dancing and Gurkha storytelling will also feature, while the more energetic visitors can have a go at an Army climbing wall or aerial ropeway.
Her arguments lacked intellectual rigour.
American football, on the other hand, is a game of intrigue, strategies and intellect.
Tell her how lonely you feel and ask how you can revive her interest. The Sun
How can Dr. Hughes tell us that putting these women in cuffs and in prison frees them? swoplv, on June 10th, 2009 at 7: 03 pm Said: Donna Hughes and Criminalizing Prostitution « Bound, Not Gagged
Loss of bounciness, sudden blisters or recurring pain are also telltale signs.
Ah, se, Diego, I work in telly and agree that tv can do drama very well. Attention TV Professionals - :: gia’s blog ::
True enough, there was a tell-tale head-shaped indentation on my pillow this morning, but that could mean anything.
Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor. Sigmund Freud
Still less can they accept impartial public broadcasting combined with a biased press and biased satellite television.
If you are intelligent and disciplined enough to read dense books, then why do you lack faith in your own abilities to show discipline with a television set?
The shopkeeper tells me that he has agreed to buy the whole building from the owner of the freehold. Times, Sunday Times
Timing is everything when it comes to telling that skateboarding babe you're majorly crushing on him.
He waits eagerly for people to recognise him in the street, and sometimes they do, and tell him off for being so horrid and mean. Times, Sunday Times
This story, like every other story, ties the tellers to one another and to this place.
There's a flood of whacky stories, and it's difficult to tell what's real and what's not.
He wanted to show that one could be an educated and intelligent believer without abandoning the apostolic rule of faith and life.
Zeena, also enraged, tells him that she became sick from nursing his ill mother.
He felt a compelling need to tell someone about his idea.
‘It is a fact that we have people in other firms trying to poach my staff telling them not to trust the big employer,’ he said.
If symptoms persist, tell your doc, regardless of test results. The Sun
A spellbinding four hours of voices, intelligent interviews and specialists. Times, Sunday Times
They also arrange satellite communications and provide other services for their vessels worldwide.
Let us adopt then words sanctioned by usage, and give the distinction between intelligence and instinct this more precise formula: _Intelligence, in so far as it is innate, is the knowledge of a_ form; _instinct implies the knowledge of a_ matter. Evolution créatrice. English
Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati. The War of the Wenuses
Watch the monitor and tell me if the level goes above forty decibels.
I wanted to tell the lady in Cairo that she was exaggerating her dress, that it was unnatural and abnormal.
ThinkProgressPromotesSocialism, care to tell me where this magical hospital that writes off chemo is so I can call and verify this? Think Progress » Democrats Need To Pass A Comprehensive Health Care Bill
She tells me she is just back from the hairdresser and the coiffure will revert to ragged ringlets as soon as it hits rain.
These low-aspect-ratio stellarator-tokamak hybrids differ from conventional stellarators in their use of the plasma-generated bootstrap current to supplement the poloidal field from external coils.
Waiters say that they can always tell if a customer is going to be a good tipper or not.
But, since this enemy has an informal, catch-as-catch-can command structure, the military says it's finding that even the low-level operatives often have pieces of information that help complete the intelligence mosaic.
You could, for example, take the Urban Birds or Marine Birds tours; familiarise yourself with the amphibians living in the ponds up on Montjuïc, or inspect the biodiversity of the Parc del Castell de l'Oreneta through a magnifying glass. 10 of the best outdoors activities in Barcelona
Singers, musicians, dancers and storytellers are always appreciated on St. Patrick's Day.
Based on my experience growing up lower middle class (which experience seems in short supply amongst posters on this blog) I can tell you that the industries where tax evasion is most common are those where you get paid under the table, or where you get a 1099. Taxes and Market Time, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
You cannot on one hand tell foks how good gayness is then in the same breath use gayness as an insult andhave any crediblity. Think Progress » Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marriage Without Congress
The task was beyond the intellectual grasp of some of the students.
I don't think by any means it's something to be done by star intellectuals or people from the top.
This is a highly recommended collection from a highly regarded intellect and one that will not disappoint.
I can't tell you how many times I've caught hell in several restaurants, laundromats, and arcades for inadvertently handing them a Canadian coin intermixed with the American stuff. Pizza Patr�n's Peculiar Pecuniary Peso-Paying Predicament
I guess my subconscious is trying to tell me something, LOL! Twilight Lexicon » Robert Pattinson Needs Your Support
Although I don't consider myself unintelligent or inarticulate, I don't tend to have the courage of my convictions when called upon to air my opinions.
Churinga, over a foot in length, they tell us, are not usually perforated; many churinga are not perforated, many are: _but the Arunta do not know why some are perforated_. The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
But when it's the sole story-telling medium, as here, I also think it has a slight distancing effect on the reader, robbing the action of some immediacy and urgency, which for modern sensibilities is perhaps not ideal when dealing with such dramatic events. Brian Ruckley - News & Views
Is a large head indicative of high intelligence?
To hear the politicians tell it, life in the ghetto was a whirl of passion, welfare checks, and liquor.
When that course entails the social regulation of her sexual life in reproduction, the young woman's entry into intellectual life will necessarily be seen as transgressive.
From his observation and writings, it is clear that the structures of intelligence and feelings begin to evolve during infancy.

How To Use Tell In A Sentence

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