Sentence examples for are told only from inspiring English sources

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are told only

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Past of tell

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Now we are told only that the new frigates "will start to replace" the existing fleet.

We are told only that the Riverdale Press carrying the story about the white man's suicide was the "Thursday edition".

The ones that aren't funny — the ones that may never be funny — are told only to therapists or to the insides of medicine cabinets.

Australian jets are spending thousands of hours in the air, and have completed over 100 airstrikes, dropping more than 400 bombs and missiles, yet we are told only about the jets' capabilities, and given pretty pictures of them in action.

Thus when Diamandis tells us about a water purification technology developed by the inventor Dean Kamen, we're led to believe it's an imminent leap forward and are told only later that the technology is still far too expensive for widespread adoption.

There is also a sense of presumption in not noting where or when the writer was born: as if to say, 'You know exactly who the famous and excellent Philip Roth is, he needs no introduction.' Instead, we are told only what he won, as if past achievement validates the present offering.

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I say, they are telling only part of the story.

Feature articles can be problematic if they are telling only one side of a story.

The jury was told only that he had died.

It was told only euro members could attend.

All of this, mercifully, is told only in flashes.

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