Example sentences for: telltale

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

  • The same is true of heroin consumption, which may readily develop into a condition of dependency in which the addict may enjoy the illusion of freely choosing not a hole bored in his ear but rather numerous telltale holes bored in his veins.

  • There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.

  • 3. The CTC did not propose, and the intelligence community collection management process did not set, requirements to monitor such telltale indicators.

  • A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, "Let us ...

  • The Post reports that Chinese diagrams of a miniaturized nuclear warhead--the W88, designed by America--contain a telltale measurement error that can be traced back to several weapons manufacterers in the U.S.


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