Example sentences for: tell

How can you use “tell” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • and saying with a serious demeanor, "Tell us about yourself."

  • First, you must tell people more or less what you think they want to hear.

  • Beneath, they run sober (and nearly identical) small print: "The Hope and the Hype--Behind the Latest Breakthroughs," Newsweek ; "How to Tell the Hype From the Hope," Time . Their inside stories, too, are cautious, noting that the new anti-angiogenic drugs are extremely promising but not a miracle cure.

  • For this reason, Gore's "litmus test" position is not merely defensible; it's the only sensible one to take if you seriously intend to get rid of "don't ask, don't tell."

  • Kristol predicted that Democratic leaders, principally Pat Moynihan, would "go to the president--and I agree with Sam; it could be in days, not in weeks--and tell him this is insupportable, you cannot put the country through this."


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