Example sentences for: tells

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

  • One wonders how gaumy the dough was that Thoreau mentions when he tells us that his mother left a bowl of dough overnight to rise, only to find the cate the next morning comfortably enthroned on the dough.

  • The paper also tells us that Patten's favorite song is "Highland Cathedral" and that the last ceremonial meal under a British flag was "Scottish salmon, stuffed chicken breast and a red fruit pudding with raspberry sauce."

  • Reich "certainly does not capture the substance of any conversation I ever had with him," Sabo wrote to the Minneapolis Star Tribune . Reich also reports a conversation in which he tells Rep.

  • Idiomatic drinking, like drinking itself, is a little fuzzier, but two senses coexist: having your comrades clap you on the back as you tilt up your beer stein, or else downing a draught of nasty medicine because the doctor tells you to.

  • A former aide to White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum tells the magazine that, in 1993, another White House employee, Kathleen E. Willey, told her that she had been groped and kissed by the president.


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