Examples of tell

• They wouldn't tell me how they had got my address.

• I felt it was my duty to tell them the truth.

• Gather (a)round, children, and I'll tell you a story.

• The doctor told me to avoid fatty foods.

• No-one told me she was ill.

• I could tell from her expression that something serious had happened.

• You can tell it's autumn because the leaves have started to fall.

• Who can tell what the future holds?

• Can you tell the the difference between poisonous mushrooms and edible varieties?

• I could tell he was really upset, though he tried not to show it.

• He told the story of a young clergyman being rebuffed by a belligerently irreligious farmer.

• She told a story about a beautiful organ in a church.

• He tells her how the book ends, "to save her the trouble of wading through it," as he says.

• In the bad, old days, epistemology told us the terms in which to explain everything.

• The child tells her imaginary baby two stories of empire, in quick succession.

• The manly man 'talks straight', tells it only as it is, and is keen to produce an art which has no ostensible aesthetic purpose.

• The difference is that the one tells of what has happened, the other of the kinds of things that might happen.

• Eyewitnesses may fail to distinguish between memories of what they actually saw and what they have subsequently been told (or read) about the same event.

• The full story of this invaluable recovery and of the correspondence with the senders would be worth telling but it gets only two brief paragraphs.

• He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties.

• Her son had told her to leave his house.

• I remember him telling me how over the years it was a role which he had been able to approach from many different standpoints.

• The winter was mild, which also told against the miners' cause.

• He was just telling us and you learn.

• The children were told they would be shown two pictures, and that the experimenter would say a description of one of the pictures.